Chapter
Chapter 1 Poststructuralism and Modern European Philosophy
Enlightenment and Disenchantment
Heidegger and the Critique of the Subject
German Idealism and Poststructuralism
Chapter 2 – From Marxism to Poststructuralism
Contexts: Institutional, Political, Theoretical
Chapter 3 – From Structuralism to Poststructuralism
Introduction: Identifying and Differentiating
The Image of Structuralism
From Structuralism to Poststructuralism: The History of Transformation
From Structuralism to Poststructuralism: The Problem of Transformation
Chapter 4 – A History of the Method: Examining Foucault’s Research Methodology
Key Concepts in Archaeology: Statements
Key Concepts in Archaeology: Discourses
Key Concepts in Archaeology: Discursive Formations
Key Concepts in Archaeology: Connaissance, Savoir and Épistémè
Examples of Archaeological Studies
The Discourse on Language (1970–1, the Collège de France inaugural lecture)
Key Concepts in Genealogy: Eventalisation
Key Concepts in Genealogy: History of the Present
Key Concepts in Genealogy: Domination
Key Concepts in Genealogy: Truth
Examples of Genealogical Works
Society Must Be Defended (1975–6, Collège de France lectures)
The Government of Self and Others (1982–3, Collège de France lectures)
Selected Additional Sources and Conclusion
Chapter 5 – Derrida, Deconstruction and Method
Poststructuralism and Deconstruction
Principles of Deconstruction
Beginning: The Thought of the Trace and Intuition
Chapter 6 – Écriture Féminine
Introduction: Problems, Perplexities and Misconceptions
The Jouissance of Cleopatra
Chapter 7 – Schizoanalysis: An Incomplete Project
Chapter 8 – Structure and Subject
Setting the Scene: Locating the ‘Structure’ in Structuralism and the ‘Subject’ in Subjectivity
Between Structure and Subject: Althusser and the Production of the Subject
Configuring the Subject after Althusser: Lacan, Derrida and Foucault
Chapter 9 – How do we Recognise the Subject?
The Subject of Desire as Lack
Desiring-production and Desiring-machines
Chapter 10 – Foucault: The Culture of Self, Subjectivity and Truth-telling Practices
Hermeneutics of the Self/Subjectivity
Care of the Self and the Aesthetics of Existence
Parrhesia as Truth-telling Practices
Chapter 11 – Derrida’s Language: Play, Différance and (Con)text
Chapter 12 – Hélène Cixous and the Play of Language
It is Because of Words that I Laugh
Woman as Metaphor and the Art of Flying
Chapter 13 – Luce Irigaray: An Ode to A-(Luce)
Exposing the ‘Blind Spot’
Feminist Poststructuralism: Through the Looking Glass
Chapter 14 – Photography and Poststructuralism: The Indexical and Iconic Sign System
Chapter 15 – Deleuze and the Image of Film Theory
Chapter 16 – The Museum of Now
The Responsibility of Learning in the Museum
Chapter 17 – Institutions, Semiotics and the Politics of Subjectivity
Institutional Analysis at La Borde
Transversality and the Politics of Desire
Rhizomic Collaborations with Gilles Deleuze
Chapter 18 – ‘Here and Nowhere’: Poststructuralism, Resistance and Utopia
Resistance and Power: Foucault
Resistance and Desire: Deleuze
Resistance and Deconstruction: Derrida
Chapter 19 – The Powers of the Outside in Deleuze and Cixous
Preliminary: Filiation and Discontinuity between Structuralism and Poststructuralism
A Turning Point in Deleuze: From Structure to Event
The Inadequacies of the Structure
Categories of Resistances and Limits
The Song of Writing of Hélène Cixous
Chapter 20 – Politics in-between Nihilism and History
Chapter 21 – The Receptions of Poststructuralism
Second Things First: Poststructuralism Translated
Born in the USA: ‘French’ Poststructuralism
Merely Academic (or) Hyper-political
The General T-shirt of Force and Signification
Cultural Studies and ‘Theory’
Feminist (Language) Differences
Alterity: Do Not Even Go There
Disjointed Connections: Postcolonialism and Poststructuralism
Visual Pleasure and Poststructuralism Disciplined
From Poststructuralism to Post-foundational Thought
Chapter 22 – From Liberation Theory to Postcolonial Theory: The Poststructuralist Turn
The Poststructuralist Turn
Chapter 23 – The Pharmacology of Poststructuralism: An Interview with Bernard Stiegler
Conclusion: Poststructuralism Today?
The Poststructuralist Event Today: Re-enacting the Drama
Notes on the Contributors
The Edinburgh Companion to Poststructuralism
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