What is "poststructuralist"

Usage examples of "poststructuralist".

We saw that the significant insight of the postmodern poststructuralists was that meaning is context-determined and contexts are boundless.

All sorts of theorists, from deep ecologists to social critics, from ecofeminists to postmodern poststructuralists, have found the notion of hierarchy not only undesirable but a bona fide cause of much social domination, oppression, and injustice.

The postmodern poststructuralists, for example, have gone from saying that no context, no perspective, is final, to saying that no perspective has any advantage over any other, at which point they careen uncontrollably in their own labyrinth of ever-receding holons, lost in aperspectival space.

The postmodern poststructuralists confuse their own aperspectival madness with literary and political critique, following, I presume, the pioneering insanity of Bataille.

Depths that call out even to the postmodern poststructuralists, who, if nothing else, are quite certain that truth is not merely a clean game of surface and empirical mapping.

This is not to claim, in the manner of De Saussure and certain foolish poststructuralists, that all thought is linguistic, or that social reality is constituted exclusively through language.

From Nietzsche to Bataille to Foucault, from Heidegger to Derrida to Lyotard, the critics have continued their assault, with the postmodern poststructuralists being merely the most recent, although possibly the loudest and most gauche, of the long line of antimodernists.

Saussure did not quite win through to a totally holonic view, but it was a major step in the right direction, and had an enormous historical impact (virtually all structuralists, and therefore all poststructuralists, and many semioticians, trace their lineage to Saussure).