Lacan and psychoanalysis -- Derrida and deconstruction -- Foucalt and the social sciences -- Some currents within post-structuralism -- Cixous, Irigaray, Kristeva: French feminist theories -- Lyotard ...

A brilliant, endearing presence on the Homewood campus for more than 60 years, Richard Macksey, A&S '53, '53 (MA), '57 (PhD), approaches knowledge the way a foodie looks at nature: There's potentially ...

My favorite love song of the past few years is “Video Games,” by Lana Del Ray because of the third line of the chorus. It’s the song’s most burlesque moment, a come-on that should feel scuzzy and ...

Like so many of his peers, Dan Beachy-Quick came of age in the heyday of post- structuralism in American universities. The lessons of Derrida infuse his work with a persistent awareness of language’s ...

To understand some of the puzzling trends in recent American literature, it helps to have a basic knowledge of the so-called “post-structuralist” theory that took hold in U.S. English departments in ...

This essay critiques classical anarchism using Nietzsche’s concept of ‘ressentiment’ and Michel Foucault’s ideas on power. While Newman caricatures 'classical anarchism' in his haste to define his own ...

In a paper for the International Journal of Cultural Studies, David Craig and Tanner Mirrlees present a Foucauldian analysis of the creator, arguing that greater terminological consistency will lead ...