HUMA 1825 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Post-Structuralism
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In terms of his contributions, he has had a huge impact on places like sociology, psychology and much more. Sexuality does not exist except as part of discursive formation. Post-structuralism: characterized by the denial of the human being as being a privilege object. So instead of privileging man as the focal point, they look at all of the social, linguistic and social determinants of thought. If you"re a post structuralism like foucault, you don"t ask questions like what is the nature of human nature? . There"s medical discourse, legal discourse (how lawyers speak in a court room is a specific way they speak which is discourse) It dominates how we think of ourselves and how we organize our social world. Morality, truth, meaning are all created through discourse (language, thought processes there"s nothing fixed or truly out there) He provides us with an analysis of power. All this time we imagine power as something that surpresses us from above.
