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Post-structuralism and the Critique of Representation
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What is the central idea of post-structuralism?
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The rejection of essentialism and the belief that meaning is constructed through language and discourse.
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Post-structuralism is a philosophical movement that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s as a critique of structuralism. Post-structuralists argue that there is no such thing as an objective, universal truth and that all meaning is constructed through language and discourse. They also reject the idea of essentialism, which is the belief that there is a fixed and unchanging essence to things.