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Understanding Poststructuralism

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Understanding Poststructuralism presents a lucid guide to some of the most exciting and controversial ideas in contemporary thought. This is the first introduction to poststructuralism through its major theorists - Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault, Lyotard, Kristeva - and their central texts. Each chapter takes the reader through a key text, providing detailed summaries of the main points of each and a critical and detailed analysis of their central arguments. Ideas are clearly explained in terms of their value to both critical thinking and to contemporary issues. Criticisms of poststructuralism are

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Understanding poststructuralism

In: Understanding movements in modern thought

Williams, James

1. Introduction : what is poststructuralism? -- 2. Poststructuralism as deconstruction : Jacques Derrida's Of grammatology -- 3. Poststructuralism as philosophy of difference : Gilles Deleuze's Difference and repetition -- 4. Poststructuralism as philosophy of the event : Lyotard's Discours, figure -- 5. Poststructuralism, history, genealogy : Michel Foucault's The archaeology of knowledge -- 6. Poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, linguistics : Julia Kristeva's Revolution in poetic language -- 7. Poststructuralism into the future.

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