A philosophical and social-theoretical movement questioning the objectivity and stability of the interpretive structures structuralism posited, arguing that meaning is destabilized by context, power and difference rather than fixed within a closed system of relations. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Core ClaimSourced to the subject's own accountRejects the structuralist assumption that a system's elements (such as a dominant term and its subservient counterpart in a binary pair) hold a fixed, stable relation to one another, arguing instead that such oppositions can be destabilized and read against themselves. 1 Origin YearSourced to the subject's own accountSources give the decade of emergence (France, the 1960s) rather than a single founding year; 1960 stands for the start of that decade, not a precise date. Poststructuralism
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Michel Foucault is among the theorists most closely identified with poststructuralism, alongside Derrida.
Source Wikipedia: Poststructuralism
Power/knowledge is a signature poststructuralist concept, part of the same theoretical current already live on this atlas.
Developed By
Source Post-structuralism (Wikipedia)
Critiqued Here
Poststructuralism developed as a critical reaction to structuralism rather than a wholesale rejection; several theorists associated with it declined the poststructuralist label themselves.
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Institutions Informed
Deconstruction is a key analytical strand within the broader poststructuralist movement this atlas already carries as a live theory.
Kinship Systems Shaped
Source New World Encyclopedia: Edward Said
Source Ernesto Laclau (Wikipedia)
Source Wikipedia: Homi K. Bhabha
Source Jacques Derrida (Wikipedia)
Source Julia Kristeva (Wikipedia)
Source New World Encyclopedia: Michel Foucault
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1. Wikipedia: Poststructuralism
WikipediaOpening paragraph, description
Post-structuralism is a philosophical movement that questions the objectivity or stability of the various interpretive structures that are posited by structuralism.
Relationship with structuralism, core claim
Post-structuralism rejects the structuralist notion that the dominant word in a pair is dependent on its subservient counterpart.
History section, origin
Post-structuralism emerged in France during the 1960s as a movement critiquing structuralism.
View the Source Julia Kristeva (Wikipedia)
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She is prominent in structuralist and poststructuralist thought.
Jacques Derrida (Wikipedia)
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He is one of the major figures associated with post-structuralism and postmodern philosophy although he distanced himself from post-structuralism and disavowed the word "postmodernity".
Ernesto Laclau (Wikipedia)
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Under his directorship, the Ideology and Discourse Analysis programme has provided a research framework for the development of a distinct type of discourse analysis that draws on post-structuralist theory (especially the work of Saussure, and Derrida), post-analytic thought (Wittgenstein, and Richard Rorty) and psychoanalysis (primarily the work of Lacan) to provide innovative analysis of concrete
New World Encyclopedia: Michel Foucault
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Sometimes described as postmodernist or post-structuralist, in the 1960s he was more often associated with the structuralist movement.
Wikipedia: Homi K. Bhabha
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His work transformed the study of colonialism by applying post-structuralist methodologies to colonial texts.
New World Encyclopedia: Edward Said
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Academically speaking, Said was a follower of Post-structuralist theory, and in particular his own thought derives critically from the works of the seminal philosopher and theorist Michel Foucault.
Post-structuralism (Wikipedia)
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Writers whose works are often characterised as post-structuralist include Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Jean Baudrillard, although many theorists who have been called "post-structuralist" have rejected the label.
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