Philosophy and Post-structuralist Theory

Abstract
This book, a critique and overview of contemporary post-structuralist theory, explores the Kantian and phenomenological background of Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault and Irigaray, and raises some key questions and issues in critical theory. Is it still possible to sustain a transcendental critical project? How do such projects fare in the current terrain of cultural studies and anti-representationalism? The book contributes to ethical and critical theory; situates poststructuralism in its philosophical background and in the sustained problematic of the enlightenment; and offers a critique of variou ... More This book, a critique and overview of contemporary post-structuralist theory, explores the Kantian and phenomenological background of Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault and Irigaray, and raises some key questions and issues in critical theory. Is it still possible to sustain a transcendental critical project? How do such projects fare in the current terrain of cultural studies and anti-representationalism? The book contributes to ethical and critical theory; situates poststructuralism in its philosophical background and in the sustained problematic of the enlightenment; and offers a critique of various appeals made to a would-be post-metaphysical or post-human culture.

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