Here and Nowhere Poststructuralism, Resistance and Utopia

An apparently paradoxical fact in the reception that poststructuralism has met is that it has been simultaneously criticised for subverting liberal democracy and for being just another specimen of bourgeois thought, the only consensus being, it seems, in charges of ‘obscurantism’, ‘relativism’ and ‘...

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Published inThe Edinburgh Companion to Poststructuralism p. 385
Main Author George Sotiropoulos
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Edinburgh University Press 18.11.2013
Subjects
Arts
Behavioral sciences
Cognitive psychology
Communications
Concept of mind
Continental philosophy
Deconstructionism
Desire
Determinable properties
Dialectic
Difference
Discourse
Emotion
Emotional states
Epistemological contextualism
Epistemology
Imaginary places
Literary elements
Literature
Metaphilosophy
Metaphysics
Ontological properties
Ontology
Philosophy
Philosophy of mind
Political ideologies
Political philosophy
Political processes
Political resistance
Political science
Politics
Poststructuralism
Psychology
Rhetoric
Social order
Social sciences
Sociology
Structuralism
Thought
Utopianism
Utopias
Western philosophy
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Summary:An apparently paradoxical fact in the reception that poststructuralism has met is that it has been simultaneously criticised for subverting liberal democracy and for being just another specimen of bourgeois thought, the only consensus being, it seems, in charges of ‘obscurantism’, ‘relativism’ and ‘nihilism’. There is of course also a kind of irony involved when poststructuralism is chided as ‘bourgeois’ by the vanguards of Marxist orthodoxy, who over the last decades have condemned every genuine insurrection against bourgeois order, from May ’68 to December 2008 in Greece. A revolutionary rhetoric does not make someone ‘revolutionary’ by default nor is critique
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