What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of…

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent…

— John F. Kennedy

Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.

— C. L. R. James

“The ‘healthy’ sign, for Barthes, is one which draws attention to its own arbitrariness—which does not try to palm itself off as ‘natural’ but…

— Terry Eagleton

I'm not sure how far Derrida's later 'theological' interests are really rooted in post-structuralism or whether they don't rather reflect a kind of Kantian-Marxist…

— George Pattison

Structuralism argues that a liberal capitalist world economy tends to preserve or actually increase inequalities between developed and less developed economies.

— Robert Gilpin

In the 1970s colleges were under the reign of a very odd form of literary theory called deconstruction or post-structuralism.

— Heather Mac Donald

We do not need French post-structuralism, whose pedantic jargon, clumsy convolutions, and prissy abstractions have spread throughout academe and the arts and are now…

— Camille Paglia

“That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Post-structuralism is among other things a kind of theoretical hangover from the failed uprising of ‘68, a way of keeping the revolution warm at…

— Terry Eagleton

I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.

— Edward Abbey

“Post-structuralism is a reaction to structuralism and works against seeing language as a stable, closed system. It is a shift from seeing the poem…

— E. Smith Sleigh

“Those who can think up feminism or structuralism; those who can't apply such insights to "Moby Dick" or "The Cat in the Hat".”

— Terry Eagleton

I studied Comparative Literature at Cornell. Structuralism was real big then. The idea of reading and writing as being this language game. There's a…

— William T. Vollmann

“Lacan, as we have seen in our discussion of Freud, regards the unconscious as structured like a language. This is not only because it…

— Terry Eagleton

“Oh where is the noble face of modesty, or the strength of virtue, now that blasphemy is in power and men have put justice…

— Euripides