Poststructuralism
A Very Short Introduction

Apparently, I'm really into post-structuralism. For now. What's with the beautiful, Sean-Scully-ish covers of very short introduction books anyway? I'm really into cover porn, and I intend to read a couple more of these this year, so good for me I guess. I surprisingly loved Catherine Belsey's writing......more

"Is the author talking about linguistics now? Or politics? Or metaphysics? Oh wait, it's popular culture. No, it's ethics! Or is it psychoanalysis? Art theory? Anthropology? Or just literary criticism?" Normally I love multi-tasking authors and theories-of-everything, but when I go through the above......more

For me, this book did what it said on the tin. I've skirted around PS in its different forms for a while now, when dabbling in semiotics and critical theory etc, and really wanted to know a little more about 'what it's all about' without burdening myself with a loaded textbook. It's not an easy subje......more

Another good book in this series. In some ways, the movement is too broad for summarization in such a short format. However, it is about as good as can be for what it is. The reader just probably needs to do some hefty reading following this introduction.......more

Nice introduction to key players and ideas, but it is confusing to follow at times and lacks a satisfactory conclusion that brings all the ideas together at the end.......more