1st Edition

Superstructuralism

By Richard Harland Copyright 2003
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

First Published in 2002. It is easy to see that we are living in a time of rapid and radical social change. It is much less easy to grasp the fact that such change will inevitably affect the nature of those disciplines that both reflect our society and help to shape it. Yet this is nowhere more apparent than in the central field of what may, in general terms, be called literary studies. ‘New... Read more
Introduction; Part 1 The Superstructuralist way of thinking; pre1 Preliminaries; Chapter 1 Saussure and the concept of ‘langue’; Chapter 2 From Durkheim to Lévi-Strauss; Chapter 3 Lacan's Freud; Chapter 4 Althusser's Marx; Chapter 5 Barthes and Semiotics; Part 2 Superstructuralism becomes philosophical; pre2 Preliminaries; Chapter 6 Metaphysical philosophy; Chapter 7 More Structural Linguistics; Chapter 8 Althusser and science; Chapter 9 Foucault as archaeologist; Part 3 Post-Structuralist philosophy; pre3 Preliminaries; Chapter 10 Derrida and language as Writing; Chapter 11 Derrida's general theory of Writing; Chapter 12 Foucault as genealogist; Chapter 13 More post-Structuralists; Conclusion;

Biography

Richard Harland