Structuralism and Post-structuralism Books

Joseph Anténor Firmin (1850-1911) was the reigning public intellectual and political critic in Haiti in the nineteenth century. He was the first "Black anthropologist" and "Black Egyptologist" to deconstruct the Western interpretation of global history...

The thrilling conclusion to the Saga of Beef. Will Bottle explode into a cloud of shrapnel? Will Skip the Editor even really learn to stop caring about Bottle's confuddling approach to reality? Will GREGORY ever find a piano to keep his fidgeting fingers...

This volume brings together some of the most well-known and highly respected commentators on the work of Jacques Derrida from Britain and America in a series of essays written to commemorate the life and come to terms with the death of one of the most...

Bottle of Beef, Book 1. The book of the blog of the facebook posts from September 2019 to June 2020. Somewhere below the Earth's surface, a man and his ragtag crew of imaginary minions run a media empire. This is not their story. Instead, please enjoy...

Somewhere below the Earth's surface, a man and his ragtag crew of imaginary minions run a media empire. This IS their story. You'll meet exciting corporate functions like Skip the Editor, Front Office Gladys, Carl the Janitor, our personal personnel...

Although normally associated with modernity or modernism, utopia has made a comeback in the age of globalization. Just as the discoveries of the New World and the social upheavals of early modern Europe inspired Thomas More's Utopia and its many...

This book explores the ways deconstruction addresses the issue of futurity (what Jacques Derrida calls the "to-come," [l'à-venir]). In order to achieve this, it focuses on three French expressions, venue, survenue, and voir-venir, each taken from the...

This book addresses Foucault's characterizations of the Enlightenment, asking whether the developmental history of the modern conception of knowledge--from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment--warrants the conclusion he draws. From the perspective of a...

Simon Susen examines the impact of the 'postmodern turn' on the contemporary social sciences. On the basis of an innovative five-dimensional approach, this study provides a systematic, comprehensive, and critical account of the legacy of the 'postmodern...

Chomsky and Deconstruction responds to Noam Chomsky's criticisms of deconstructive theorists by exploring the historical dimensions of Chomsky's own philosophy of language. Wise suggests that the Cartesian basis of the linguist's own thought complicates...

What is the point of cultural theory? Do we even know what it is? This book is at once an introduction to, and, broadly, a defence of modern cultural theory understood as a particular constellation of inquiry, one that may be all the more important in...