Edinburgh Companion to Poststructuralism
Published on 18. November 2013
561 pages
978-0-7486-5369-0 (ISBN)
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Written by experts in their field, this Companion surveys the challenges and provocations raised by the major voices of poststructuralism: Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, Cixous, Lyotard, Guattari, Kristeva, Irigaray, Barthes and Baudrillard. Thematically organised and clearly written, it will guide students and researchers in philosophy, literature, art, geography, politics, sociology, law, film and cultural studies around the nature and contemporary relevance of poststructuralism.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction
- Poststructuralism as a Meaningful Event
- What is 'Post' in Poststructuralism?
- The Event of Poststructuralism
- Notes
- References
- Part I - Emergence
- Chapter 1 Poststructuralism and Modern European Philosophy
- Enlightenment and Disenchantment
- Heidegger and the Critique of the Subject
- German Idealism and Poststructuralism
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 2 - From Marxism to Poststructuralism
- Contexts: Institutional, Political, Theoretical
- Against Marxism
- From Marxism
- References
- Chapter 3 - From Structuralism to Poststructuralism
- Introduction: Identifying and Differentiating
- The Image of Structuralism
- From Structuralism to Poststructuralism: The History of Transformation
- From Structuralism to Poststructuralism: The Problem of Transformation
- Notes
- References
- Part II - Methods
- Chapter 4 - A History of the Method: Examining Foucault's Research Methodology
- Introduction
- Archaeology: What is it?
- Key Concepts in Archaeology: Statements
- Key Concepts in Archaeology: Discourses
- Key Concepts in Archaeology: Discursive Formations
- Key Concepts in Archaeology: Connaissance, Savoir and Épistémè
- Examples of Archaeological Studies
- The Discourse on Language (1970-1, the Collège de France inaugural lecture)
- Genealogy: What is it?
- Key Concepts in Genealogy: Eventalisation
- Key Concepts in Genealogy: History of the Present
- Key Concepts in Genealogy: Domination
- Key Concepts in Genealogy: Truth
- Examples of Genealogical Works
- Society Must Be Defended (1975-6, Collège de France lectures)
- The Government of Self and Others (1982-3, Collège de France lectures)
- Selected Additional Sources and Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 5 - Derrida, Deconstruction and Method
- Poststructuralism and Deconstruction
- Principles of Deconstruction
- Beginning: The Thought of the Trace and Intuition
- Structure and Sign
- References
- Chapter 6 - Écriture Féminine
- Introduction: Problems, Perplexities and Misconceptions
- The Medusa's Laughter
- Writing Sexts
- Speaking Hysterically
- The Jouissance of Cleopatra
- White Ink
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 7 - Schizoanalysis: An Incomplete Project
- Notes
- References
- Part III - Themes
- Structure and Subject
- Chapter 8 - Structure and Subject
- Setting the Scene: Locating the 'Structure' in Structuralism and the 'Subject' in Subjectivity
- Between Structure and Subject: Althusser and the Production of the Subject
- Configuring the Subject after Althusser: Lacan, Derrida and Foucault
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 9 - How do we Recognise the Subject?
- The Subject of Desire as Lack
- Desiring-production and Desiring-machines
- The Place of the Subject
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 10 - Foucault: The Culture of Self, Subjectivity and Truth-telling Practices
- Introduction
- Hermeneutics of the Self/Subjectivity
- Care of the Self and the Aesthetics of Existence
- Parrhesia as Truth-telling Practices
- Notes
- References
- Language and Text
- Chapter 11 - Derrida's Language: Play, Différance and (Con)text
- Introduction
- Play
- Style
- Freeplay
- Language and Text
- The Play of Différance
- Speech Acts
- Context
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 12 - Hélène Cixous and the Play of Language
- It is Because of Words that I Laugh
- Woman as Metaphor and the Art of Flying
- I am Only a Poet
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 13 - Luce Irigaray: An Ode to A-(Luce)
- Style
- Style in Context
- Exposing the 'Blind Spot'
- A Feminine Culture
- Becoming Two
- Feminist Poststructuralism: Through the Looking Glass
- Notes
- References
- Form and Institution
- Chapter 14 - Photography and Poststructuralism: The Indexical and Iconic Sign System
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 15 - Deleuze and the Image of Film Theory
- The Cinematic Subject
- The Cinematic Image
- Cine-semiotics
- Movement, Time, Thought
- The Image of Theory
- References
- Films
- Chapter 16 - The Museum of Now
- The Three Ecologies
- The Responsibility of Learning in the Museum
- Shifting Terrains
- References
- Chapter 17 - Institutions, Semiotics and the Politics of Subjectivity
- Institutional Analysis at La Borde
- Transversality and the Politics of Desire
- Rhizomic Collaborations with Gilles Deleuze
- The Three Ecologies
- References
- Resistance and Limit
- Chapter 18 - 'Here and Nowhere': Poststructuralism, Resistance and Utopia
- Resistance and Power: Foucault
- Resistance and Desire: Deleuze
- Resistance and Deconstruction: Derrida
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 19 - The Powers of the Outside in Deleuze and Cixous
- Preliminary: Filiation and Discontinuity between Structuralism and Poststructuralism
- A Turning Point in Deleuze: From Structure to Event
- The Inadequacies of the Structure
- Categories of Resistances and Limits
- The Song of Writing of Hélène Cixous
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 20 - Politics in-between Nihilism and History
- Notes
- References
- Part IV - Trajectories
- Chapter 21 - The Receptions of Poststructuralism
- Derrida's Cat
- Derrida's Reception
- Second Things First: Poststructuralism Translated
- Born in the USA: 'French' Poststructuralism
- Merely Academic (or) Hyper-political
- The General T-shirt of Force and Signification
- Cultural Studies and 'Theory'
- Feminist (Language) Differences
- Alterity: Do Not Even Go There
- Disjointed Connections: Postcolonialism and Poststructuralism
- Visual Pleasure and Poststructuralism Disciplined
- From Poststructuralism to Post-foundational Thought
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 22 - From Liberation Theory to Postcolonial Theory: The Poststructuralist Turn
- Foundations
- The Poststructuralist Turn
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 23 - The Pharmacology of Poststructuralism: An Interview with Bernard Stiegler
- Translator's Notes
- References
- Conclusion: Poststructuralism Today?
- Poststructuralism Tamed
- Poststructuralism Styled
- The Poststructuralist Event Today: Re-enacting the Drama
- Notes
- References
- Films
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
