Theories of Discourse: An IntroductionISBN: 978-0-631-14839-5
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156 pages
January 1991, Wiley-Blackwell
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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