Similarities and difference...
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Similarities and difference...
Apologies if this topic has been done to death elsewhere.
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Post-structuralism is the deconstruction or breaking down of often long held intellectual structures. Foucault does it in Madness and Civilization, rethinking how and why structures of defining the mentally ill/insane became to be what they are.
Postmodernism is a reaction to the theory of the avant guarde, which champions the new for it's own sake. Postmodernism mixes historic out-of-date (in a modernist sense) styles and combines traditionally separate mediums often pushing them to extremes. Examples would include the melding of theater and visual art in performance art and earthworks such as Robt. Smithson's Spiral Jetty.
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Yes, I guess they are both intellectual structures.
I think the deconstruction of post-structuralism has broader inference; no structures of thought are sacred; everything is challenged. The very bases of our thought processes are challenged. The truths of our accumulated knowledge is put to the test. The concept of the avant garde as the basis of modernism drove development of new and cutting edge developments in the arts and the way I understand it evolved over time. The various developing 'new' movements in the arts, late 19th to mid-20th c., led to the formulation of the concept intellectually. There were early activities such as Dada that foretold the demise of the modernist sensibility. By mid to late 20th C. modernism was in decline. It seems to me post-modernist development was more organic while post-structuralism was a more decisive change in thinking originating with the likes of Derrida and Barthes in the 1960's. You'll need the response of a scholar to delineate the nuances of philosophical difference between the two.
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