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Theories of Discourse: An Introduction

ISBN: 978-0-631-14839-5
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156 pages
January 1991, Wiley-Blackwell
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Acknowledgements vii

Introduction 1

What is 'discourse'? 1

Discourse and literary studies 4

1 The end of the 1960s 8

Structuralism's demise 8

May 1968 and questions of practice 12

2 From ideology to discourse: the Althusserian stand 24

The prevailing practices 28

Ideologies in struggle 33

Against humanism: problems of the subject 36

3 Meaningful antagonisms: Pecheux on discourse 43

Discourse and position 45

Scientific discourse 56

4 Discourse and the critique of epistemology 60

Hindess and Hirst 64

Everything is discourse? 68

The politics of philosophy 75

5 Foucault's archaeologies of knowledge 82

Dismantling the history of ideas 84

Conditions of knowledge 89

Problems and advances 94

6 Subjection, discourse, power 101

Subjection and the body 102

Discourse and subjection 110

Of power and resistance, or, What's wrong with pragmatism? 118

Conclusion 125

Notes 131

Bibliography 133

Index 140

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