Dr. J Overview of Poststructuralism, Deconstructionism

Question 1

Postmodernism

Answer 1

Historical period – begins after WW2 – Dr. J says after atomic bomb
Style – high modernism
Worldview – as an ideology, set of values, critiques nations of the subject, rationality, truth, binary distinctions, hierarchy, exclusions, etc. (Postmodernism– fail to deliver on these promises)

Question 2

Poststructuralism

Answer 2

Denotes broad philosophical movement – cross disciplines, reaction to structuralism & phenomenology, linguistic turn in thinking (center in France in early 1960s, moved to U.S. in early 1970s
(Can’t know anything except through language, like a philosophy but language)

Question 3

Deconstruction

Answer 3

NOT breaking things into parts – that analysis
Term associated most with Jaques Derrida, Gertrude Stine might have been first person to use the term, gave it its currency
Denotes a critical practice
Closely associated with post mod and poststrucbu much narrower
Grounded in structuralism and phenomenology