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Structuralism & post-structuralism
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Deconstruction is not “anything goes”, and its critics should stop saying it is
Every few months someone in a thread like this one says that Derrida licensed readers to make texts mean whatever they like. I want to argue that this is a caricature, and that it mostly comes from one misquoted sentence. The sentence…
Started by Martín Roldán5 replies241 views -
What does Derrida’s différance actually claim about meaning?
I teach the terminale philosophy class in a Dakar lycée. Every year one or two bright students discover Derrida online and come to class announcing that “there is nothing outside the text”, which they take to mean that nothing is real except…
Started by Khady Faye4 replies140 views -
Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes was a French literary theorist, critic and semiotician who taught at the École pratique des hautes études and from 1977 at the…
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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault was a French philosopher and historian of ideas who held a chair in the history of systems of thought at the Collège…
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Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida was a French philosopher, born in Algeria, who taught in Paris at the École normale supérieure and the École des hautes études…
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Gilles Deleuze
Gilles Deleuze was a French philosopher who taught at Lyon and at the University of Paris VIII (Vincennes, later Saint-Denis). Through studies of Hume,…
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Ferdinand de Saussure
Ferdinand de Saussure was a Swiss linguist who studied in Leipzig, taught in Paris and then at the University of Geneva. The Course in…