poststructuralism

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Those philosophers of mind who had always been opposed to trendy French poststructuralism or old-fashioned Freudianism, and the mutability of personality these implied, put forth strong claims for the persistence of innate ideas and unalterable structures.

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  1. noun Any of various theories or methods of analysis, including deconstruction and some psychoanalytic theories, that deny the validity of structuralism's method of binary opposition and maintain that meanings and intellectual categories are shifting and unstable.

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  • The most prominent (at least in the nonacademic media) are the Literary Darwinists, whose work emphasizes the discovery of the evolutionary patterns of behavior within literary texts - the Iliad in terms of dominance and aggression, or Jane Austen in terms of mating rituals - and sets itself firmly against 30 years of what they see as anti-scientific literary theories like poststructuralism and Marxism. —  3quarksdaily
  • Observing that all poetry is complexity avant la lettre, the article illustrates these points with the Odyssey and concludes that while complexity is ultimately concerned with fitness, poststructuralism is preoccupied with justice. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • It does no good, for instance, to discuss poststructuralism in a poetry class in which students have no idea what it means (and may not even know how to recognize metaphors). —  Inside Higher Ed
  • Building upon critical theory, including the Marxian Frankfurt school, the institute's influences include postmodernism and poststructuralism —  Autism Hub
  • Mark worked more on my version of postmodern critical theory, a Marxian approach combined with poststructuralism, social constructionism, etc. —  Autism Hub
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