Deleuze's Nietzsche and Post-Structuralist Thought
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4792591 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vincent P Pecora (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 34 |
| Publication date | 1986-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | SubStance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0049-2426 • E-ISSN: 1527-2095 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3684995 |
| OpenAlex | W2335360544 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
We have now had roughly a quarter century of post-structuralismif, that is, one can decide that something called structuralism ever happened, if one uses the earliest work of Derrida, Deleuze, and Foucault as some sort of historical marker, and if (perhaps most of all) one is interested in calculating such things in the first place. It is clearly possible now to take stock of this situation and explain post-structuralism to a wider audience-for example, by reading it against the current of other competing theoretical positions, as Terry Eagleton has most recently done. Yet, in many ways, the philosophical, cultural, and political density of any mode of thought that might be called post-structuralist is still weirdly difficult to articulate--or to hear articulated-in America; it is as if we had engaged countless tutors and adopted a wide variety of points of view-in the truest sense of a democratic pluralism-and had remained somehow in the dark, groping for an intellectual wall to follow. Poststructuralism becomes deconstruction becomes free play, and largely what this means is a style of literary criticism that has adopted as its goal the displacement of any center of meaning in a text and the disruption of any thematic reading, sometimes for the purposes of descrying the forces of domination inherent to the literary construction that would compel the reader toward such conclusions. No matter how many theoretical analyses are produced to correct the flat, reductive quality of this reception, the American literary community as a whole--both pre- and
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2025 (35) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |