post-structuralism
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1. what is post structuralism? post-structuralism is an intellectual movement that emerged in philosophy and the humanities in the 1960s and 1970s. it challenged the tenets of structuralism, which had previously held sway over the interpretation of language and texts in the humanities and the study of economies and cultures in the social sciences. post-structuralists critiqued structuralism's reliance on centers and binary oppositions; they questioned the soundness of ontology and demonstrated the emergence of truth regimes; and they developed new ways of thinking about difference and identity that are anti-essentialist rather than grounded or fixed a priori. post-structuralism has been criticized for being idealist and apolitical and for lacking evaluative standards, charges that most pos...
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