Post-structuralism is a reaction to structuralism and…

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'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

“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

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

“There is no reason to assume that the unceasing forward march of techne will not eventually achieve a mimesis which replaces a natural world…

— Jean Baudrillard

“We need a visible past, a visible continuum, a visible myth of origin to reassure us as to our ends, since ultimately we have…

— Jean Baudrillard

“Not to pick a fight with any post-structuralist critics or anything like that, but a certain frame of mind can only tolerate that kind…

— Christian Rudder

“This book first arose out of a passage in [Jorge Luis] Borges, out of the laughter that shattered, as I read the passage, all…

— Michel Foucault

“The 1980s witnessed radical advances in the theorisation of the study of literature in the universities. It had begun in France in the 1960s…

— Geoffrey Harvey

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

— Edward Abbey

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

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“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

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

— Robert Gilpin