GS211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Post-Structuralism, Age Of Enlightenment, Secular Morality
Document Summary
Not simply description, part telling the reader about the book, then engaging one aspect more critically. Part 1, 2, 3 main critical review. Early theories of development like modernization and dependency: focus on growth. Shift in thinking in 1970"s- 80"s: counter-proposals and critiques: Rooted in critique of modernity and rationality. **post development critiques looks at discourse and unpacks the underlying functions. 1960- early 1980: critical development thinking dominated by marxism and neo-marxism (dependency, world systems) coming from the left. All historical events and social characteristic are a component of a general overarching system, be it a modes of production, world capitalist system, or global market. Explaining something meant putting it into the context of its more general system or structure; explaining why ! New stand of thinking is suspicious of this. Bases of political movements, so development seen as way of restructuring society. Everything in structuralism has to fit" in the grand narratives.
