[PEN-L:28530] rejecting a school

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

Title: rejecting a school

Ian:>Post-structuralism is not a monolithic repertoire of work so it simply does not follow that "it's" nonsense.<

Gar:>Post-structuralism may not be monolithic, but it is a school or a
tendency. It is possible to dismiss the entire tendency. <

All or almost all tendencies on the left have something to contribute and can't be rejected out of hand. If nothing else, they can contribute a critique of other schools, though of course that can bog down into academic nonsense.

BTW, how is "post-structuralism" defined? I'm "post-structuralist" since I learned from the Althusserian structuralists without but moved on. But I don't think that's what the term means...

Can someone name the main achievement of one author who has been dubbed "post-structuralist"? It is much better to talk about one specific thing than to go on and on about abstractions such as "post-structuralism."

JD