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Poststructuralism

Thinkers and essays gathered around this school of thought.

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Jacques Derrida

Reads texts through deconstruction, difference, ambiguity, traces, and the instability of fixed meaning.

“There is nothing outside the text.”
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1926–1984

Michel Foucault

Examines power, knowledge, discipline, institutions, identity, history, and the construction of normality.

Political Philosophy · Poststructuralism · Social Theory
1930–2004

Jacques Derrida

Reads texts through deconstruction, difference, ambiguity, traces, and the instability of fixed meaning.

Language & Meaning · Literary Theory · Poststructuralism
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