Post Structuralism


Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Writing and Difference
Of Grammatology
Difference and Repetition
Simulacra and Simulation
Specters of Marx
The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Nietzsche and Philosophy
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
Jean Baudrillard
We need a visible past, a visible continuum, a visible myth of origin to reassure us as to our ends, since ultimately we have never believed in them.
Jean Baudrillard, Simulations (Semiotext

Terry Eagleton
Lacan, as we have seen in our discussion of Freud, regards the unconscious as structured like a language. This is not only because it works by metaphor and metonymy: it is also because, like language itself for the post-structuralists, it is composed less of signs — stable meanings — than of signifiers. If you dream of a horse, it is not immediately obvious what this signifies: it may have many contradictory meanings, may be just one of a whole chain of signifiers with equally multiple meanings. ...more
Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction

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