An Introductory Guide to Post-Structuralism and Postmodernism
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 Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray, and Julia Kristeva.\ The chapter on postmodernism has been...
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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 Hélène 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.
Preface to the second editionAcknowledgementsIntroduction11Lacan and psychoanalysis5Self and language10Self and identity12Freud and Lacan14Hegel and Lacan17The sense of loss21The imaginary, the symbolic and the real24Some criticisms of Lacan262Derrida and deconstruction32The instability of language32Phonocentrism-logocentrism34Rousseau and Levi-Strauss38Freud and Lacan42Nietzsche and metaphor45Understanding metaphor47The politics of metaphor48Deconstruction and Marxism503Foucault and the social sciences58Introduction: Foucault's view of history58Reason and unreason59A struggle over meaning65Disciplinary power66Technical rationality69Sexuality and power70Power and knowledge73Foucault and Althusser75Foucault's critique of Marxism78Some criticisms of Foucault's work804Some currents within post-structuralism90Nietzsche contra Hegel90Deleuze and Guattari: the return to the imaginary93Prisoners of discourse97The celebration of intensity99The 'new philosophers'1015Cixous, Irigaray, Kristeva: French feminist theories109Helene Cixous109Luce Irigaray116Julia Kristeva1226Lyotard and postmodernism129Introduction: meanings and characteristics129Postmodernism131The postmodern condition132Narrative knowledge and scientific knowledge135The mercantilization of knowledge138Bourgeois art and its function in society139The main features of the avant-garde141Modernism and postmodernism143The main features of postmodernism144Totality or fragmentation147On language games and the sublime150Some criticisms of Lyotard's work152Feminism and postmodernism1557Baudrillard and some cultural practices161Baudrillard161Some postmodernist cultural practices168Conclusion178Notes188Index202
