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Poststructuralism and Baudrillard

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Derrida's reaction to Husserl's claim for transcendental understanding, and his assertion that metaphysics imposes structure on a world "characterised by difference and contingency" (2007, 66) claims a postmodernist view of the world. But the brilliance of Derrida's argument is his assertion that the conventional nature of writing, or even language, which relies entirely on agreement and attribution of meaning, and thus contradicts any possibility of the existence of an ?ideal', ?true' or universally singular meaning...
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This is the claim that Jean-Francois Lyotard makes in The Postmodern Condition (1979). With an almost prophetic eye toward the post-colonial theory to emerge, Lyotard rejected the acceptance of totalizing narratives that justify historical events, concepts, or practices. These totalising narratives he refers to as ?metanarratives'...
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