antifoundationalist

Three common themes in the work of Foucault and Derrida exemplify their antifoundationalist stance: (1) they reject a voluntaristic understanding of agency, in which individuals are responsible for their destiny; (2) they conceive of the productive nature of power; and (3) they demand reflection on the specific terms chosen (such as names, identities or nations) as the basis for political action.

Queer Theory and Poststructuralist Theory 2009

Both Foucault and Derrida advocate what is known as an antifoundationalist perspective, characterized by a refusal to accept individual social agents as “masters” of their own lives, identities, and worlds.

Queer Theory and Poststructuralist Theory 2009

In 1935, in the second issue of Analysis, Hempel, writing in English because Carnap could not at the time, described Carnap's viewpoint in similar, if not quite identical, antifoundationalist terms.

Hans Reichenbach Glymour, Clark 2008

"The parliament of modernity includes the party of Enlightenment, with its rationalist and empiricist versions of foundationalism (from Descartes to Husserl and from Locke to logical positivism), and the party of Hegelian holism, with its antifoundationalist claims that certainty is never warranted at the beginning but only at the end, when totality is achieved" (Westphal 1990: 115).

Muti 2008

"The parliament of modernity includes the party of Enlightenment, with its rationalist and empiricist versions of foundationalism (from Descartes to Husserl and from Locke to logical positivism), and the party of Hegelian holism, with its antifoundationalist claims that certainty is never warranted at the beginning but only at the end, when totality is achieved" (Westphal 1990: 115).

Muti 2008