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Author : Catherine Belsey 

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Poststructuralism challenges traditional ways of thinking about human beings and our relation to the world. Language, meaning, and culture are all reappraised, and with them assumptions about what it’s possible for us to know. More interested in posing sharply focused questions than in reassuring with certainties, its theorists tend to clarify the options, while leaving them open to debate. At once sceptical towards inherited authority and positive about future possibilities, poststructuralism asks above all that we reflect on its findings. In this Very Short Introduction, Catherine Belsey traces the key arguments that have led poststructuralists to challenge traditional theories of language and culture. In this new edition, such well-known figures as Barthes, Foucault, and Derrida are joined by less famous theorists, and examples are drawn from both high art and popular culture. Shakespeare features alongside advertising and Christmas cards, as well as Lewis Carroll, Marcel Duchamp, Toni Morrison, and the tantalizing lithographs of M. C. Escher. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction 2nd Table of contents:

Chapter 1 Creatures of difference
Language and knowledge
Language and cultural change
Poststructuralism and language
The importance of language
Meaning
Difference, not reference
Saussure and the sign
The primacy of the signifier
‘The Death of the Author’
Citationality
The reader
Popular usage
Chapter 2 Difference and culture
Values
Your turn
Nature v. history
‘Eternal Man’
Marxism and ideology
‘Ideological State Apparatuses’
The subject
Ideology or myth?
Structuralism or poststructuralism?
Is Mythologies poststructuralist?
And Althusser?
Chapter 3 The differed subject
Brought into line
Free subjects?
Foucault
Resistance
Sexual norms
Psychoanalysis
Prohibitions
The subject of desire
Venus
Strangers to ourselves?
Scandal
Mind and body
It’s a hard life
Oppositions
Chapter 4 Difference or truth?
The subject to the rescue?
The poststructuralist alternative
Relativism instead?
Deconstruction
Binary oppositions
Deconstructing Lévi-Strauss
Deconstructing Saussure
Deconstruction, not critique
Sonnet 18
Differance
The strange case of Richard Mutt
The implications of undecidability
Chapter 5 Difference in the world
Mastery in question
The desire for presence
The world strikes back
Making decisions
The event
Bodies
The human organism
Beyond words
Stuttering
The real
Mastery revisited
Chapter 6 Dissent
Responsibility
Heroism
Sublimation
Dissension
Language games
Nodal points
Creativity
The avant-garde
Terror
The event
Fiction
Poststructuralism and reflection
Common concerns
Glossary
References
Further reading

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