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Post-Structuralism and the Question of Agency
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What is the central theme 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 response to structuralism. Post-structuralists argue that there is no such thing as a fixed or essential meaning, and that meaning is instead constructed through language and discourse. This means that the meaning of a text or a statement is not inherent, but rather is dependent on the context in which it is used.