POST-STRUCTURALISM


Meaning of POST-STRUCTURALISM in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˌpōs(t)-ˈstrək-chə-rə-ˌli-zəm, -ˈstrək-shrə- ]

noun

Date: 1977

: a movement or theory (as deconstruction) that views the descriptive premise of structuralism as contradicted by reliance on borrowed concepts or differential terms and categories and sees inquiry as inevitably shaped by discursive and interpretive practices

• post-struc·tur·al·ist -list adjective or noun

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