Poststructuralism Books

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Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 1,308 ratings — published 2002
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The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 26,203 ratings — published 1976
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Simulacra and Simulation Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 17,081 ratings — published 1981
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 37,695 ratings — published 1975
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Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 8,884 ratings — published 1972
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 20,071 ratings — published 1989
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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 14,781 ratings — published 1961
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A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 7,131 ratings — published 1980
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The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as poststructuralism)
avg rating 3.81 — 5,899 ratings — published 1979
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The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 9,689 ratings — published 1966
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Of Grammatology Of Grammatology (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as poststructuralism)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,373 ratings — published 1967
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Writing and Difference Writing and Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as poststructuralism)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,936 ratings — published 1967
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Mythologies Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as poststructuralism)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,412 ratings — published 1957
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Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977 Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 3,018 ratings — published 1977
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Specters of Marx Specters of Marx (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 3,850 ratings — published 1993
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The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 7,477 ratings — published 1969
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Gilles Deleuze: An Introduction Gilles Deleuze: An Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 395 ratings — published 2005
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Difference and Repetition Difference and Repetition (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as poststructuralism)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,902 ratings — published 1968
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Libidinal Economy Libidinal Economy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 277 ratings — published 1974
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Forget Foucault Forget Foucault (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 635 ratings — published 1983
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The Pleasure of the Text The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 5,979 ratings — published 1973
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The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 2,880 ratings — published 1984
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The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 4,586 ratings — published 1984
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Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976 Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 2,897 ratings — published 1976
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The Foucault Reader The Foucault Reader (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 2,681 ratings — published 1984
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From Bakunin to Lacan: AntiAuthoritarianism and the Dislocation of Power From Bakunin to Lacan: AntiAuthoritarianism and the Dislocation of Power (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 148 ratings — published 2001
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The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 2,560 ratings — published 1963
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Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as poststructuralism)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,803 ratings — published 1993
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This Is Not a Pipe This Is Not a Pipe (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 3,285 ratings — published 1968
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Understanding Poststructuralism (Understanding Movements in Modern Thought) Understanding Poststructuralism (Understanding Movements in Modern Thought)
by (shelved 3 times as poststructuralism)
avg rating 3.96 — 26 ratings — published 2005
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Nietzsche and Philosophy Nietzsche and Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as poststructuralism)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,611 ratings — published 1962
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Desert Islands: And Other Texts, 1953-1974 Desert Islands: And Other Texts, 1953-1974 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as poststructuralism)
avg rating 4.24 — 299 ratings — published 2002
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The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as poststructuralism)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,144 ratings — published 1997
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The Laugh of the Medusa The Laugh of the Medusa
by (shelved 3 times as poststructuralism)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,537 ratings — published 1975
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Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory (Gender and Culture) Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory (Gender and Culture)
by (shelved 3 times as poststructuralism)
avg rating 3.96 — 49 ratings — published 2009
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Foucault and Queer Theory Foucault and Queer Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as poststructuralism)
avg rating 3.45 — 323 ratings — published 1995
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Fearless Speech Fearless Speech (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as poststructuralism)
avg rating 4.17 — 597 ratings — published 1983
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Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as poststructuralism)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,052 ratings — published 1975
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Foucault Foucault (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as poststructuralism)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,337 ratings — published 1986
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Écrits Écrits (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 3,408 ratings — published 1966
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Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as poststructuralism)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,058 ratings — published 1994
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The Inhuman: Reflections on Time The Inhuman: Reflections on Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as poststructuralism)
avg rating 4.00 — 216 ratings — published 1988
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Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as poststructuralism)
avg rating 3.99 — 78,951 ratings — published 1980
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Undoing Gender Undoing Gender (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as poststructuralism)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,343 ratings — published 2004
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The Society of the Spectacle The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as poststructuralism)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,951 ratings — published 1967
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The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as poststructuralism)
avg rating 3.70 — 141 ratings — published 1994
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Postmodern Anarchism Postmodern Anarchism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as poststructuralism)
avg rating 3.17 — 18 ratings — published 2003
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A Lover's Discourse: Fragments A Lover's Discourse: Fragments (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as poststructuralism)
avg rating 4.35 — 14,239 ratings — published 1977
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Image - Music - Text Image - Music - Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as poststructuralism)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,823 ratings — published 1977
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Symbolic Exchange and Death Symbolic Exchange and Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as poststructuralism)
avg rating 4.18 — 512 ratings — published 1976
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Camille Paglia
“Enough already of Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault poured like ketchup over everything. Lacan: the French fog machine; a grey-flannel worry-bone for toothless academic pups; a twerpy, cape-twirling Dracula dragging his flocking stooges to the crypt. Lacan is a Freud T-shirt shrunk down to the teeny-weeny Saussure torso. The entire school of Saussure, inluding Levi-Strauss, write their muffled prose of people with cotton wool wrapped around their heads; they're like walking Q-tips. Derrida: a Gloomy Gus one-trick pony, stuck on a rhetorical trope already available in the varied armory of New Criticism. Derrida's method: masturbating without pleasure. It's a birdbrain game for birdseed stakes. Neo-Foucaldian New Historicism: a high-wax bowling alley where you score points just by knockng down the pins.”
Camille Paglia, Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Jorge Luis Borges
“It is a revelation to compare the Don Quixote of Pierre Menard with that of Miguel de Cervantes. Cervantes, for example, wrote the following (Part I, Chapter IX):

...truth, whose mother is history, rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, exemplar and adviser to the present, and the future's counselor.

This catalog of attributes, written in the seventeenth century, and written by the "ingenious layman" Miguel de Cervantes, is mere rhetorical praise of history. Menard, on the other hand, writes:

...truth, whose mother is history, rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, exemplar and adviser to the present, and the future's counselor.

History, the mother of truth! - the idea is staggering. Menard, a contemporary of William James, defines history not as delving into reality but as the very font of reality. Historical truth, for Menard, is not "what happened"; it is what we believe happened. The final phrases - exemplar and adviser to the present, and the future's counselor - are brazenly pragmatic.”
Jorge Luis Borges, Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote

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