Philosophy #2 Introduction to Post-structuralism

Other posts in this series:
Part 1 - https://steemit.com/foucault/@liketheboys/philosophy-1-introduction-to-foucault
Part 2 - https://steemit.com/foucault/@liketheboys/philosophy-2-introduction-to-foucault

These posts are mainly just a way of me focusing my mind on actually writing things out. I don’t claim they’ll be high quality. Some might contain a lot of quotes, they’ll most likely end when I get bored. But hopefully others can relate to the struggle of feeling like all your skills in concentration dribbled out your brain some time in 2004 when you got your first computer?

Christopher Bolton’s YouTube video ‘Animating Post-structuralism’ says, ‘[Post-structuralism is] a consciousness that literary language and maybe language more broadly do not point simply or reliably to a stable meaning, but only ever defer language by pointing to other language. Post-structuralism encourages a way of reading that is aware of the gaps in meaning that inevitably exist in language. It is a way of reading that does not try to get outside of language to nail down meaning or close those gaps. Rather it revels in the play of language and plays at constructing new meanings in the spaces these gaps open up.’

Dr Jason J. Campbell says there is some debate about what the term ‘post structuralism’ is defined as.

‘Post-structuralism names the theory, or group of theories, concerned with the relationship between human beings and the world, and the practice of making and reproducing meaning.’ – Catherine Belsey, ‘Post-Structuralism: A Very Short Introduction’

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