Abstract

TONKONOFF, Sergio. Theory beyond theoría. The poststructuralist movement. Enfoques [online]. 2021, vol.33, n.2, pp.33-58. ISSN 1669-2721.

The paper presents a general reading of poststructuralism describing it as a heteroge neous set of theories about the social, the political and the subjective that had struc turalism, Freudism and Marxism as complex references. We propose to characterize poststructuralism by its “torsion” of these references, and to distinguish two great stages in the development of its investigations: one linked to the affirmation of rad ical difference and the criticism of totalizing conceptions of system, and the other one linked to the reconceptualization of systems as multiplicities or not-wholes. In this work we will mainly focus on the first stage, and we will only outline some key elements for understanding the second one.

Keywords : Poststructuralism; Social theory; Difference; System.

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