Jacques Derrida’s “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences” Jacques Derrida’s “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences” In “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences,” Jacques Derrida challenges the basic assumptions that have gui...
Stuart Hall’s “The Emergence of Cultural Studies and the Crisis of the Humanities” Summary of Stuart Hall’s “The Emergence of Cultural Studies and the Crisis of the Humanities” In “The Emergence of Cultural Studies and the Crisis of the Humanities,” Stuart Hall explains why cultural studies came int...
Marxism Marxism Marxism is a way of understanding society, history, and culture that was developed mainly by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the nineteenth century. As explained in Beginning Theory, Marxism starts from a very simple but powerful idea: human society is shaped mainly by economic con...
Deleuze and Guattari’s “What Is a Minor Literature?” Deleuze and Guattari’s “What Is a Minor Literature?” Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s essay “What Is a Minor Literature?” is one of the most influential texts in modern literary theory. It appears in their book Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature ...
Fredric Jameson’s Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism Fredric Jameson’s Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism Fredric Jameson’s book Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism is one of the most important and influential works on postmodern cultu...