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Understanding Poststructuralism is a lucid guide to some of the most exciting and controversial ideas in contemporary thought. Structured around the key works of the movement's most important theorists, Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva, Lyotard and Deleuze, each chapter examines a central text, providing detailed summaries of the main points and a critical analysis of the core arguments. Difficult ideas are clearly explained both in terms of their value to critical thinking and to contemporary issues. Poststructuralism's challenging methodology; deconstruction, libidinal economics, genealogy and transcendental empiricism; is illuminated by being examined in context. Although a sympathetic interpreter of poststructuralism, Williams is not dismissive of the criticism of analytic philosophers and he is able to provide a much needed balanced assessment of this philosophy. The book offers an ideal introduction for students encountering poststructuralist ideas in philosophy, social and political theory, cultural studies, gender studies and in literary and art criticism.

Poststructuralism. --- Post-structuralism --- Philosophy, Modern --- Structuralism

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Der Band versammelt Aufsätze, die Überlegungen der dekonstruktivistischen Philosophie Jacques Derridas aufnehmen und weiterentwickeln. Er bietet einen Überblick über die Rezeption Derridas in der deutschsprachigen politischen Philosophie und Politikwissenschaft. Die Beiträge beschäftigen sich mit Derridas Perspektive auf bedeutende Traditionen der politischen Theorie und entwickeln im Anschluss an seine Philosophie neue Optionen für die zeitgenössischen Debatten der Demokratietheorie, der Theorie der internationalen Beziehungen, der Kritischen Theorie, der politischen Ethik, der Gender Studies u.a.m. Mit Beiträgen von Jean-Luc Nancy, Dirk Quadflieg, Philipp Schink, Christoph Menke, Markus Wolf, James D. Ingram, Oliver Flügel, Andreas Niederberger und Martin Saar.

Philosophy --- Deconstruction. --- Political Philosophy. --- Political Theory. --- Politics. --- Post-structuralism. --- Philosophie; Politische Theorie; Dekonstruktion; Derrida; Politik; Politische Philosophie; Poststrukturalismus; Philosophy; Political Theory; Deconstruction; Politics; Political Philosophy; Post-structuralism

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Foucaults »archäologisch« genannte Schriften sind mehr als nur historiographische Methode. Sie bilden einen Diskurs, der den historischen Prozess seiner eigenen Konstitution als Diskurs beschreibt und betreibt. Der performativen Dimension von Foucaults archäologischem Diskurs wohnt damit eine spezifische Reflexionsfigur inne, die in der vorliegenden Studie als der »archäologische Zirkel« freigelegt wird. Ferner leistet diese Freilegung eine neuartige Auslotung des Foucault'schen Diskursbegriffs und, im Ausgang von Descartes, Kant und Nietzsche, eine Neueinbettung der Philosophie in eine diskontinuierliche Diskursgeschichte.

Foucault; Descartes; Kant; Nietzsche; Philosophiegeschichte; Diskurstheorie; Reflexionstheorie; Sprache; Poststrukturalismus; Sprachphilosophie; Philosophie; History of Philosophy; Language; Post-structuralism; Philosophy of Language; Philosophy --- Language. --- Philosophy of Language. --- Philosophy. --- Post-structuralism.

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This book explores the relation between poststructuralist thought and postcoloniality, and identifies in that interaction the expression of a particular anxiety concerning the form of theoretical writing. Many so-called poststructuralist thinkers, such as Derrida, Cixous, Lyotard, Barthes, Kristeva and Spivak, have turned their attention at some point in their career towards questions either of postcolonialism, or of cultural domination and difference. For all these thinkers, however, a reflection on such questions has generated a sense of unease concerning the assumed neutrality of theoretical discourse, and the inevitable subjective or autobiographical investments of the writing self. The book argues that this anxiety betrays an unprecedented lucidity concerning the particular challenges of writing about ourselves and others at a time of postcolonial upheaval.

Postcolonialism in literature. --- Poststructuralism. --- Comparative literature --- Thematology --- Post-structuralism --- Philosophy, Modern --- Structuralism

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Gavin Rae shows that the problematic status of agency caused by the poststructuralist decentring of the subject is a central concern for poststructuralist thinkers. He shows how this plays out in the thinking of Deleuze, Derrida and Foucault, and find the best explanation of agency for the founded subject in the work of Castoriadis.

Poststructuralism. --- Agent (Philosophy) --- Agency (Philosophy) --- Agents --- Person (Philosophy) --- Act (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Post-structuralism --- Philosophy, Modern --- Structuralism