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Wiktionary
- n. A doctrine that rejects structuralism’s claims to objectivity and emphasises the plurality of meaning.
Examples
“Holding my breath, I gently prised the sticker away from the tissue paper, and unwrapped the bundle, listening carefully for the sound of Pat or David busting in to offer me an espresso or a lecture on post-structuralism.”
“The posthuman is the point at which the most pressing concerns in gender studies, post-structuralism, cultural materialism & postmodernism converge.”
“More than anything else, I would say, this changing of the critical guard, the cycling through of formalism, structuralism, post-structuralism, historicism, cultural studies, is what makes academic criticism "less appealing" to non-academic readers.”
“I understand that intellectuals like for all people to be bound to them as "natural superiors," but academics long ago abdicated the throne when they embraced relativism, deconstruction and post-structuralism.”
The Wall Street Journal: Progressivism Has Destroyed Classical Education
“Not bad, that, given the nonexistence at the time of post-structuralism or, indeed, structuralism.”
“A review of the literature informs me that post-structuralism, womanism, libertarianism, postmodernism, transnationalism, and queer, critical and post-colonial theory are all central to third wave ideology.”
“I'm sure soon I'll say something outrageous again and piss off the reactionaries, or those who provide them a Left cover by promoting identity politics or post-structuralism; but at the moment I just can't think of anything outrageous to say.”
“A new paradigm of philosophy, post-structuralism emerged in France in the 1960s, and is broadly understood as a body of distinct elaborations on structuralism, which attempted to explain the world as a neat system of inter-related structures.”
“It happened to the people who coined “post-structuralism”, “positioning”, “natural selection”, almost any specialist term.”
“While post-structuralism states that the position of the reader vis-a-vis the meaning of the text is superior to authorial intent in all cases, and therefore your reading of the text here is as valid as any other, nevertheless:”
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litcrit & theory
gurlesque, new criticism, marxism, psychoanalytic, postcolonialism, existentialism, phenomenology, hermeneutics, surrealism, dadaism, post-structuralism, structuralism and 77 more...
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hokai's Words
mudra, interdependence, aqal, advaita, nondual, enactment, nonexclusion, enfoldment, post-metaphysics, meta-theory, post-structuralism, post-postmodern and 26 more...
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words without meaning
deconstructivism, post-modern, constructionism, post-structuralism, suburban, extreme, brechtian
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