poststructuralist

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English

Etymology

From post- +‎ structuralist.

Adjective

poststructuralist (not comparable)

  1. (philosophy) Of, pertaining to, or advocating post-structuralism
    • 2007 May 27, Siddhartha Deb, “Just So Stories”, in New York Times:
      In reading Davis’s stories, therefore, we are likely to be reminded as much of the poststructuralist emphasis on language in the works of Blanchot as of the antinarrative impulse of French nouveau-Romanists like Butor.

Noun

poststructuralist (plural poststructuralists)

  1. (philosophy) An advocate of post-structuralism

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