Reviews for Politics and Post-structuralism: An Introduction

The average rating for Politics and Post-structuralism: An Introduction based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-03-14 00:00:00 Stephen Karnes It was fairly a vague introductory book. When I choose to read introductory books, I´m looking for something that makes ideas more clear for me, if I wanted to see the same jargon and same complicate network of opposing ideas, I could have consult the primary sources. That´s why, despite the well-organised structure of the book and its inclusiveness, I cannot consider it a very good book, but only applicably acceptable.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-02-01 00:00:00 Christine Salberg This book clarified several issues and (possibly) misunderstandings I had on writers such as Derrida, Deleuze and Foucault, and offered an introduction to Lyotard and Kristeva, whose books I have never read. It written for undergraduate students as the target audience, but general readers will benefit greatly from the book. The positive aspects of poststructuralism, as for instance concerning Enlightenment' not being against rational thought, in favor of obscurantism, but actually offering new and careful views, criticisms and creative connections perhaps beyond rationalism, is some of such clarifications from the present book (or at least a defense/interpretation by the author). Certainly, my reading of those authors will be made a little bit more interesting and contextualized, even though I might not agree with their views or grasp their intentions, but perhaps that is the way it should be... Highly recommended.