Post Structuralism

 historical dimension of discursive change for Foucault means

Husserl is associated with

metaphysics is essentialist and paternal

For Post Structuralist thinkers truth is located in

Metaphysicians privilege speech over writing

New Critics seek to show that the text is characterised by disunity rather than unity.

The critique of structuralism is that

YOU are amazing for even attempting to understand all this!

The author-function is ...

In metaphysics difference arises from identity

Post modern refers to being post

to deconstruct is to question the basis of authority and hierarchy

Metaphysics is a philosophy that seeks truth in a transcendental realm

Axiomatic means self evident and unquestioning

Derrida is different than Saussure in that he felt difference characterized all

Barthes's argument was to replace the figure of the Author with the figure of ecriture

According to transcendentalist philosophy truth is

Phenomenology posits a

Claude Levi Strauss Claimed to Find

Who is Barthes critiquing when he says the relation between a signifier and signified is motivated not arbitrary

According to deconstruction difference generates identity

The idea that some are more deserving because of "nature" is a

Contingency means things are independent of one another

metaphysicians privilege speech because

Post Structuralism believes binaries are simply arbitrary oppositions

Logocentrism means the centrality given the mind or logos in metaphysics

Derrida calls the metaphysics that underwrites such authority and hierarchy..

For Barthes 'the modern scriptor' means a writer who

Barthes is different from New Criticism

"The Death of the Author" is an attempt

Foucault questions the ideological status of the Author

Foucault explains how discourse is guided by...

difference can never be prior because (p.85)

Barthes and New Criticism are alike in that they both critique

Difference can never be prior

Derrida's deconstructive ideas inspired