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Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction

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Poststructuralism challenges traditional ways of thinking about human beings and our relation to the world. Language, meaning, and culture are all reappraised, and with them assumptions about what it's possible for us to know. More interested in posing sharply focused questions than in reassuring with certainties, its theorists tend to clarify the options, while leaving them open to debate. At once sceptical towards inherited authority and positive about future possibilities, poststructuralism asks above all that we reflect on its findings.

In this Very Short Introduction, Catherine Belsey traces the key arguments that have led poststructuralists to challenge traditional theories of language and culture. In this new edition, such well-known figures as Barthes, Foucault, and Derrida are joined by less famous theorists, and examples are drawn from both high art and popular culture. Shakespeare features alongside advertising and Christmas cards, as well as Lewis Carroll, Marcel Duchamp, Toni Morrison, and the tantalizing lithographs of M. C. Escher.

Author: Belsey Catherine
Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9780198859963
Cover: Paperback
Edition Number: 2
Release Year: 2022

Preface by Neil Badmington
1:Creatures of difference
2:Difference and culture
3:The differed subject
4:Difference or truth?
5:Difference in the world
6:Dissent
References
Further reading
Glossary
Index


Catherine Belsey, Chair of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University

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