Noun
post-structuralism (uncountable)
A doctrine that rejects structuralism’s claims to objectivity and emphasises the plurality of meaning.
Post-structuralism is among other things a kind of theoretical hangover from the failed uprising of ‘68, a way of keeping the revolution warm at the level of language, blending the euphoric libertarianism of that moment with the stoical melancholia of its aftermath. Terry Eagleton
Application of deconstruction Derrida's observations have had a large influence on literary criticism and post-structuralism. Source: Internet
Derrida states that "the motif of deconstruction has been associated with "post-structuralism" but that this term was "a word unknown in France until its "return" from the United States." Source: Internet
By contrast, post-structuralism argues that founding knowledge either on pure experience (phenomenology) or systematic structures (structuralism) is impossible. Source: Internet
Bookstores do a thriving business in biographies, which sell far more copies than the esoteric monographs based on post-structuralism, cultural, racial or gender history. Source: Internet
As critical theory developed in the later 20th century, post-structuralism sought to problematize human relationships to knowledge and 'objective' reality. Source: Internet