DET101-Post-Structuralism, Deconstruction, Postmodernism (1966-present)

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This approach(Post-Structuralism, Deconstruction, Postmodernism) concerns itself with the ways and places where...
Systems, frameworks, definitions, and certainties break down.
Post-structuralism maintains that ...
Frameworks and systems
From the last slide: give an example?
For example the structuralist systems explained in the Structuralist area, are merely fictitious constructs and that they cannot be trusted to develop meaning or to give order.
Post-Structuralism holds that there are many truths, that...
Framworks must bleed, and that structures must become unstable or decentered.
What power are post-structuralism concerned?
Power structures or hegemonies and power and how these elements contribute to and/or maintain structures to enforce heirarchy.
By questioning the process of developing meaning, post-structural theory strikes at the very heart of philosophy and reality and throws knowledge making into what Jacques Derrida called...
"freeplay"
What is "freeplay"?
The concept of centered structure... is contradictory coherent...the concept of centered structure is in fact the concept of a freeplay which is constituted upon a fundamental immobility and a reassuring certitude, which is itself beyond the reach of the freeplay
Derrida first posited these ideas in ... what year, where and what are his ideas?
1966 at Johns Hopkins University, when he delivered "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences".
What is his ideas(Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences) about?
Perhaps something has occurred in the history of the concept of structure that could be called an 'event', if this loaded word did not entail a meaning which it is precisely the function of structural-or structuralist-thought to reduce or to suspect. But let me use the term "event" anyway, employing it with caution and as if in quotation marks. In this sense, this event will have the exterior form of a rupture and a redoubling.
In his presentation, Derrida challenged _____'s most basic ideas.
Fill the blank.
Structuralism
Post-structural theory can be tied to a move against ...
Modernist/Enlightenment ideas and Western religious beliefs
Give examples of the philosophers that have Modernist/ Enlightenment ideas.
Immanuel Kant, Réne Descartes, John Locke, etc.
Give examples of Western religious beliefs.
Neo-Platonism, Catholicism, etc.
Who is an early poineer of this resistance(Modernist/Enlightment ideas and Western religious beliefs)?
Friedrich Nietzsche
What is the name of Friedrich Nietzsche's essay that he wrote against Modernist/Enlightment ideas and Western religious beliefs?
"On Truth and Lies in an Extra-moral Sense" (1873)