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Madan Sarup has now revised his accessible and popular introduction to post-structuralist and postmodern theory. A new introductory section discusses the meaning of such concepts as modernity, postmodernity, modernization, modernism, and postmodernism. A section on feminist criticism of Lacan and Foucault has been added, together with a new chapter on French feminist theory focusing on the work of Helene Cixous, Luce Irigaray, and Julia Kristeva.The chapter on postmodernism has been significantly expanded to include a discussion of Lyotard's language games and his use of the category "sublime." This chapter ends with a discussion of the relationship between feminism and postmodernism. A further chapter has been added on the work of Jean Baudrillard, a cult figure on the current postmodernist scene, whose ideas have attained a wide currency. The chapter includes a new section on postmodern cultural practices as revealed in architecture, TV, video, and film. Suggestions for further reading are now listed at the end of each chapter and are upgraded and annotated.In tracing the impact of post-structuralist thought not only on literary criticism but on such disciplines as philosophy, politics, psychoanalysis, the social sciences, and art, this book will be essential reading for those who want a clear and incisive introduction to the theories that continue to have widespread influence.

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Madan Sarup teaches at the South Bank University, London. His publications include The Politics of Multiracial Education (1986), Education and the Ideologies of Racism (1991), and Jacques Lacan (1992).

Preface to the second edition
Acknowledgements
Introduction	p. 1
Lacan and psychoanalysis	p. 5
Self and language	p. 10
Self and identity	p. 12
Freud and Lacan	p. 14
Hegel and Lacan	p. 17
The sense of loss	p. 21
The imaginary, the symbolic and the real	p. 24
Some criticisms of Lacan	p. 26
Derrida and deconstruction	p. 32
The instability of language	p. 32
Phonocentrism-logocentrism	p. 34
Rousseau and Levi-Strauss	p. 38
Freud and Lacan	p. 42
Nietzsche and metaphor	p. 45
Understanding metaphor	p. 47
The politics of metaphor	p. 48
Deconstruction and Marxism	p. 50
Foucault and the social sciences	p. 58
Introduction: Foucault's view of history	p. 58
Reason and unreason	p. 59
A struggle over meaning	p. 65
Disciplinary power	p. 66
Technical rationality	p. 69
Sexuality and power	p. 70
Power and knowledge	p. 73
Foucault and Althusser	p. 75
Foucault's critique of Marxism	p. 78
Some criticisms of Foucault's work	p. 80
Some currents within post-structuralism	p. 90
Nietzsche contra Hegel	p. 90
Deleuze and Guattari: the return to the imaginary	p. 93
Prisoners of discourse	p. 97
The celebration of intensity	p. 99
The 'new philosophers'	p. 101
Cixous, Irigaray, Kristeva: French feminist theories	p. 109
Helene Cixous	p. 109
Luce Irigaray	p. 116
Julia Kristeva	p. 122
Lyotard and postmodernism	p. 129
Introduction: meanings and characteristics	p. 129
Postmodernism	p. 131
The postmodern condition	p. 132
Narrative knowledge and scientific knowledge	p. 135
The mercantilization of knowledge	p. 138
Bourgeois art and its function in society	p. 139
The main features of the avant-garde	p. 141
Modernism and postmodernism	p. 143
The main features of postmodernism	p. 144
Totality or fragmentation	p. 147
On language games and the sublime	p. 150
Some criticisms of Lyotard's work	p. 152
Feminism and postmodernism	p. 155
Baudrillard and some cultural practices	p. 161
Baudrillard	p. 161
Some postmodernist cultural practices	p. 168
Conclusion	p. 178
Notes	p. 188
Index	p. 202
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An Introductory Guide to Post-Structuralism and Postmodernism

An Introductory Guide to Post-Structuralism and Postmodernism

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