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variation of structuralism, often seen as a critique, emphasizing plurality of meaning and instability of concepts that structuralism uses to define society, language, etc.

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  • Vying for power today are poststructural feminists
  • Agonistic feminist political philosophy comes out of poststructural continental feminist and philosophical traditions.
  • So what is Gold, a guy who admits he "did plow through most of the Semiotext (e), Frankfurt school, poststructural stuff" in his 20s, saying?
  • Steven Milloy, or our first two commenters on this thread -- that one might associate with poststructural European philosophy than with policy discourse.
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