Here and Nowhere Poststructuralism, Resistance and Utopia

• Published in: The Edinburgh Companion to Poststructuralism p. 385
• Main Author: George Sotiropoulos
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• 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

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 ‘...