Meanings
comparative more postdeconstructive · superlative most postdeconstructive
- Pertaining to or characteristic of a style of analysis moving beyond deconstructionism.
Only Punday’s emphasis on re-integration and a new totality could somehow be called postdeconstructive.
2019, Luc Herman, Bart Vervaeck, Handbook of Narrative Analysis, →ISBN, page 367, n. 6902 more examples
Obviously, I make no claims to a corner on the whole truth—and I argue that Lucan too would reject such claims as inimical to the spirit of his project. If it is true that some readers may find this book’s version of the poet and his work to be too well-tailored to the postdeconstructive atmosphere of the academy today, I acknowledge this risk and, indeed, publish it […]
1997, Shadi Bartsch, Ideology in Cold Blood: A Reading of Lucan’s Civil War, →ISBN, page 3The critical tradition has a lot to say about the distorting effects of othering but has yet to even imagine the mind that is postdeconstructive—“the subject after deconstruction […]”.
2008, Robert Hattam, “Socially-Engaged Buddhism as a Provocation for Critical Pedagogy in Unsettling Times”, in Claudia Eppert, Hongyu Wang, editors, Cross-cultural Studies in Curriculum: Eastern Thought, Educational Insights, →ISBN, page 117
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