Critical Theory and Poststructuralism : : In Search of a Context / / Mark Poster.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Poster, Mark,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1989
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.) :; 7 charts
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Theory and the Problem of Context --; 1. The Modern versus the Postmodern --; 2. Sartre' s Concept of the Intellectual --; 3. Foucault and the Problem of Self-Constitution --; 4. Foucault , the Present I and History --; 5. Foucault and the Tyranny of Greece --; 6. Foucault, Poststructuralism, and the Mode of Information --; 7. The Mode of Information --; 8. The Family and the Mode of Information --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501746185; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501746185
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Mark Poster.

In Critical Theory and Poststructuralism Mark Poster enacts a dialogue between the French poststructuralists, especially Michel Foucault, and the tradition of critical social theory as developed by the Frankfurt School and by other Continental theorists such as Jean-Paul Sartre. These confrontations between poststructuralists who represent "postmodern" thought and theorists committed the "modern" project of the Enlightenment is, according to Poster, of urgent importance because of the failure of critical theory to sustain a convincing critique of today's radically changed social formation.