Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Poststructuralism challenges traditional ways of thinking about human beings and our relation to the world.
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Shakespeare features alongside advertising and Christmas cards, as well as Lewis Carroll, Marcel Duchamp, Toni Morrison, and the tantalizing lithographs of M.
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.
In this Very Short Introduction , Catherine Belsey traces the key arguments that have led poststructuralists to challenge traditional theories of language and culture.
At once sceptical towards inherited authority and positive about future possibilities, poststructuralism asks above all that we reflect on its findings.
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.
Language, meaning, and culture are all reappraised, and with them assumptions about what it\'s possible for us to know.
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Poststructuralism challenges traditional ways of thinking about human beings and our relation to the world
