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poststructuralism

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of various theories or methods of analysis, including deconstruction and some psychoanalytic theories, that deny the validity of structuralism's method of binary opposition and maintain that meanings and intellectual categories are shifting and unstable.

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  • noun philosophy An extension of structuralism influenced by the deconstructionists

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post- +‎ structuralism

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