POSTRUCTURAL AND POSTMODERN THEORY
Intellectual Influences
- structuralism: the search for "deep structures"
- linguistics
- anthropology
- sociology
- Marxist and functionalist
- ethnomethodology and dramaturgy
- existentialism
Socio-historical Influences: modernism
- Post World War II: Modern Industrial Society
- rationalism, scientism, nationalism
- faith in science and technology
- emerging critiques
- existential philosophy and literature
- "modern" art and literature
- The Sixties
- the search for "deep structures"
- the challenge of
- counter culture
- literary criticism
- social criticism
The Nature of Post-structural Analysis (a model?)
- wholistic
- hermeneutic (interpretive)
- relation between text and reader
- relation between system and experience
- political
- meaning/knowledge system as powerful constraint
- struggle to impose or resist meaning systems
- revisionist
- rejects literary and academic canons
- rejects "great books" and "great men"
- rejects "science" (including social science)
- rejects "history"
Examples of Post-structural Discourse
- Foucault
- Lyotard's debate critique of/debate with Habermas
- Analysis of academic discourse
Toward a Model of Poststructural Social Action
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