Aftermath Quote by Terry Eagleton

“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

“Therefore, it is a combination of the two factors—widespread skepticism about reason and socialism’s being in crisis—that is necessary to give rise to postmodernism.”

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupationshave ceased to function,…

— Gilbert Adair

In the 60s there were a lot of things which were anarchistic. May-June '68 was riddled by anarchistic sentiments, dreams and ideals, but insofar…

— Murray Bookchin

Modern Anarcho-Syndicalism is a direct continuation of those social aspirations which took shape in the bosom of the First International and which were best…

— Rudolf Rocker

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

— Heather Mac Donald

I think part of the success which Structuralist or post-Structuralist thought in critical theory has had in literary studies in American universities is due…

— Susan Sontag

Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.

— Ada Louise Huxtable

Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation within ruination.

— Jean Baudrillard

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

“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

Postmodernity is said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued qualities of…

— Jean Baudrillard