poststructuralism
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- noun
- /ˌpoʊstˈstrʌkʧərəlɪzəm/
- Specialized
- This theory of poststructuralism asserts that language does not have a single, stable meaning.
- poststructuralism versus structuralism
- poststructuralism and postmodernism
- poststructuralism and deconstruction
Examples
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And although it would obviously be a mistake to elide poststructuralism and postmodernism, they do share this commitment to openness.
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In this reading, which is often associated with poststructuralism, spatial relations are both metaphoric and material.
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But the case against poststructuralism has been made very thoroughly from a number of angles.
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Barbara Christian's famous article "The Race for Theory" set the stage for the first type of rejection of poststructuralism.
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But there are other aspects of poststructuralism that sit uneasily with the study of tribal arts.
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As feminists, we have found poststructuralism extremely useful and were hard-pressed to appear objective.
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In some respects, the New Mythology's frequent borrowing from poststructuralism and the general intellectual climate of postmodernism is healthy and appropriate.
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The core of Moi's critique of poststructuralism is not of its historicizing aims, but rather that it fails to attain them.
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According to poststructuralism, absence informs a primal space prior to language, the alterity and impasse of discourse.
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Wolin examines the commonalities and differences among the Frankfurt School, Existentialism, and Poststructuralism, particularly in regard to their historical and cultural validity.
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
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A way of reading texts that looks for hidden ideas and parts that do not agree
Surface Forms
Morphology
poststructuralism = structuralism (semi-transparent) = post + structure + al + ism
Adding post- to structuralism is a straightforward prefixation, even though the base term is specialized philosophical vocabulary.
Etymology
Poststructuralism begins with post- meaning 'after', as in the word post-war, and the part structure meaning 'an arrangement or system', so the name fits a theory that came after structural ideas and that questions fixed 'structures' and meanings.