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I'm trying to figure out how to approach critical theory, does /lit/ have any favorite postmodernist/structuralist writers?

>> No.1149108

I would say read Zizek and work your way back. (Seriously) Either that, or you could start with Marx's 1844 Manuscripts. I find Foucault endlessly fascinating, and Deleuze for short lengths of time can be worth reading.

>> No.1149132

>>1149108
yes I've read very much zizek and little much foucault, slight deleuze *but* I have not approached jaques lacan beyond Cixous/irigaray/Kristeva and I've only heard about Jean Baudrillard

it has been very taxing on my brain lately, I appreciate your input

>> No.1149134

read de saussure and work your way forward

>> No.1149154

>>1149104

Start with whoever interests you most. I'm particularly fond of Baudrillard, Foucault, and Althusser. You might try starting with Adorno and Horkheimer's Dialectic of the Enlightenment, if you really need a suggestion.

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>marxism

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Jaques Derrida, Jaques Lacan, Cixous, which is why I liked the text-book "Post-Modernist Theory to 1960" which was a survey of pertinant, must read articles. Levi-Strauss? Honestly, you might as well take up Qabballah, after awhile, all of these articles and authors are so self-referencing unless you plan to go into a teaching position needing to be published in critical writing, two semesters should be moar than enough...