Introductory Guide to Post-Structuralism

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ISBN: 9780820315317

ISBN-10: 0820315311

ISBN-13: 9780820315317

Edition: 2nd 1993

Authors: Madan Sarup

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Madan Sarup has now revised his accessible and popular introduction to post-structuralist and postmodern theory. A new introductory section discusses the meaning of such concepts as modernity, postmodernity, modernization, modernism, and postmodernism. A section on feminist criticism of Lacan and Foucault has been added, together with a new chapter on French feminist theory focusing on the work of Helene Cixous, Luce Irigaray, and Julia Kristeva.The chapter on postmodernism has been significantly expanded to include a discussion of Lyotard's language games and his use of the category "sublime." This chapter ends with a discussion of the relationship between feminism and postmodernism. A…

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List price: $28.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication date: 8/1/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Preface to the second edition


Acknowledgements


Introduction



Lacan and psychoanalysis


Self and language


Self and identity


Freud and Lacan


Hegel and Lacan


The sense of loss


The imaginary, the symbolic and the real


Some criticisms of Lacan



Derrida and deconstruction


The instability of language


Phonocentrism-logocentrism


Rousseau and Levi-Strauss


Freud and Lacan


Nietzsche and metaphor


Understanding metaphor


The politics of metaphor


Deconstruction and Marxism



Foucault and the social sciences


Introduction: Foucault's view of history


Reason and unreason


A struggle over meaning


Disciplinary power


Technical rationality


Sexuality and power


Power and knowledge


Foucault and Althusser


Foucault's critique of Marxism


Some criticisms of Foucault's work



Some currents within post-structuralism


Nietzsche contra Hegel


Deleuze and Guattari: the return to the imaginary


Prisoners of discourse


The celebration of intensity


The 'new philosophers'



Cixous, Irigaray, Kristeva: French feminist theories


Helene Cixous


Luce Irigaray


Julia Kristeva



Lyotard and postmodernism


Introduction: meanings and characteristics


Postmodernism


The postmodern condition


Narrative knowledge and scientific knowledge


The mercantilization of knowledge


Bourgeois art and its function in society


The main features of the avant-garde


Modernism and postmodernism


The main features of postmodernism


Totality or fragmentation


On language games and the sublime


Some criticisms of Lyotard's work


Feminism and postmodernism



Baudrillard and some cultural practices


Baudrillard


Some postmodernist cultural practices


Conclusion


Notes


Index