KnowraPoststructuralismLinked fromLinked fromThe 15 pages that link to Poststructuralism, each with the reason it gives.All 15Related 6Narrower topic 2Compared with 7New CriticismCompared with: It challenges the New Critical assumption that a text’s tensions can resolve into coherent unity.PostmodernismRelated: Poststructuralist ideas informed postmodern criticism, though the terms describe different things.Frankfurt SchoolCompared with: Its challenges to universal reason and historical explanation expose tensions with some Frankfurt School projects.Critical theoryCompared with: Its challenge to unified theories of society complicates critical theory's explanatory ambitions.DeconstructionNarrower topic: Deconstruction is often situated within this movement, though it is not a single fixed theory.Death of the AuthorNarrower topic: The theory exemplifies poststructuralist skepticism toward a single authoritative source of meaning.Anthony GiddensCompared with: Giddens’s emphasis on knowledgeable agents and structured practices differs from poststructuralist accounts of subjectivity.Henry Louis Gates Jr.Related: Gates adapts theories of textual instability to analyze signifying and African American literary revision.Post-MarxismRelated: Its account of unstable meaning informs post-Marxist analyses of discourse and identity.Maurice BlanchotRelated: Blanchot’s account of impersonal language became a major resource for later French theory.Social theoryCompared with: It questions fixed structures and universal explanations often assumed by social theories.Alain BadiouCompared with: Badiou argues for universal truths against philosophies that emphasize their historical or linguistic contingency.Terry EagletonCompared with: Eagleton critiques poststructuralist claims while engaging their challenges to traditional interpretation.Queer studiesRelated: Its critique of stable categories informed queer theory’s account of identity and language.Igor PlotnitskyRelated: Its theories of language and interpretation help situate Plotnitsky’s literary-critical methods.