Post-Structuralist Influences

Question 1

Lyotard

Answer 1

Modernism was based on the belief in progress and of the possibility of objective knowledge.

Question 2

Derrida

Answer 2

Deconstruction, Structures of meaning are not anchored with reference to the outside world. Terms can only be made sense in opposition to other signs, and must relinquish all hope of finding the absolute truth or intrinsic meanings.

Question 3

Foucault

Answer 3

Discourse and Power. There are communities that share a discourse/meaning. This discourse is affected by power relations in a given community. Communities and subjects are shaped by discourse (beliefs/attitudes) and practices derived from those. Any current truth is constructed.