Post-structuralism

'''Post-structuralism '''

definition          “’[P]ost-structuralism may be broadly described as a field that explores the meaning of language and discourse to question the universalizing aims and assumptions of Western social science (including especially positivism, Marxism and structuralism). Often associated with the work of Jean-Francois Lyotard, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, it implies a political and philosophical orientation that questions inter alia the notion that the study of language may reveal universal laws; that individuals may act with intentionality and agency; and that society may be described in terms of binary relations, such as subject and object or, indeed, labour and capital…” (Johnson 2009:19)