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Theorizing Our Discursive Lives

Postmodernism and Poststructuralism

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The Postmodern Age … 311

What Is Postmodernism? … 314

Characteristics of Postmodernism … 315

The Roots of Postmodern Theories … 321

Michel Foucault: Pioneer of Postmodernism … 323

Jean-Francois Lyotard: Warrior Against Totality … 333

The Unreal Worlds of Jean Baudrillard … 336

Jacques Lacan: Poststructuralist Critic of the Postmodern Psyche … 347

Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari: Anti-Psychiatry Activists … 357

Jacques Derrida: The Deconstruction of Language and Life … 361

Perplexities of Postmodernism … 368

References … 370

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Tony Simmons

Tony Simmons teaches sociology at Athabasca University. He is the author of Revitalizing the Classics: What Past Social Theorists Can Teach Us Today and co-author of Reading Organizational Theory: A Critical Approach to the Study of Organizational Behaviour and Structure.