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'''Post-structuralism''' is a label formulated by American academics to denote the heterogeneous works of a series of mid-20th-century French and continental philosophers and critical theorists who came to international prominence in the 1960s and '70s. A major theme of ''poststructuralism'' is instability in the human sciences, due to the complexity of humans themselves and the impossibility of fully escaping structures in order to study them. Post-structuralism is a response to [[structuralism]].  
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'''Post-structuralism''' is a label formulated by American academics to denote the heterogeneous works of a series of mid-20th-century French and continental philosophers and critical theorists who came to international prominence in the 1960s and '70s. A major theme of post-structuralism is instability in the human sciences, due to the complexity of humans themselves and the impossibility of fully escaping structures in order to study them. Post-structuralism is a response to [[structuralism]].  
  
 
==Authors==
 
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==Literature==
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==Selected literature==
* Umberto Eco, ''The Open Work'', 1962
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* Umberto Eco, ''Opera aperta'', 1962. (in Italian)
* Roland Barthes, ''Elements of Semiology'', 1967
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** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=5802 The Open Work]'', trans. Anna Cancogni, Harvard University Press, 1989.
* Judith Butler, ''Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity'', 1990
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* Roland Barthes, [http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/comm_0588-8018_1964_num_4_1_1029 "Éléments de Sémiologie"], ''Communications'' 4, 1964, pp 91-135; repr. as ''Eléments de sémiologie'', Paris: Denoël/Gonthier, 1965. [http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/barthes.htm Excepts]. (in French)
* Katerina Kolozova and Francois Laruelle, ''Cut of the Real: Subjectivity in Poststructuralist Philosophy'', 2014
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** [[Media:Barthes_Roland_Elementos_de_semiologia_1971.pdf|''Elementos de semiologia'']], trans. Izidoro Blikstein, São Paulo: Editôra Cultrix, 1971. (in Portuguese)
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** [[Media:Barthes_Roland_Elements_of_Semiology_1977.pdf|''Elements of Semiology'']], trans. Annette Lavers and Colin Smith, New York: Hill and Wang, 1977.
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* Judith Butler, ''[http://autof.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/butler-judith-gender-trouble-feminism-and-the-subversion-of-identity-1990.pdf Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity]'', Routledge, 1990.
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* Katerina Kolozova, ''Cut of the Real: Subjectivity in Poststructuralist Philosophy'', Columbia University Press, 2014.
  
 
==External links==
 
==External links==
 
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-structuralists
 
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-structuralists
* http://www.poststructuralism.info/
 
  
==See Also==
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==See also==
 
* [[Structuralism]]
 
* [[Structuralism]]
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Post-structuralism is a label formulated by American academics to denote the heterogeneous works of a series of mid-20th-century French and continental philosophers and critical theorists who came to international prominence in the 1960s and '70s. A major theme of post-structuralism is instability in the human sciences, due to the complexity of humans themselves and the impossibility of fully escaping structures in order to study them. Post-structuralism is a response to structuralism.

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