Postmodernism as Discourse from Foucault to Habermas

Postmodernism, “Reality” and Public Administration: A Discourse

Derek Hook Discourse , knowledge , materiality , history : Foucault and discourse analysis

Discourse analysis has come to represent something of a ‘growth industry’ in both research and critical psychology. Despite the apparent indebtedness of many such methods of discourse analysis to Foucault, there exists no strictly Foucauldian method of analysing discourse. Through a close reading of Foucault's ‘The order of discourse’ (1981), this paper re-characterizes the concept of discourse...

Edward Said and Michel Foucault: Representation of the Notion of Discourse in Colonial Discourse Theory

Edward Said is regarded as the originator of colonial discourse theory. He deploys Michel Foucault’s notion of discourse to accomplish his project in Orientalism and emphasizes Foucault’s notion of discourse and its relation to power, rendering discourse a carceral system. Although Said explicitly expresses the similarity between Orientalism and Foucault’s discourse theory, it seems he...

Existentialism and psychoanalysis: from antiquity to postmodernism.

The term “existentialism” is so ambiguous that it has essentially become a meaningless word: it is associated with a number of disparate philosophical doctrines, social-political movements, and artistic sensibilities, that it becomes slippery to pin down its core philosophical tenets to such a degree that an undertaking of this kind would be no less rendered moot. We may nevertheless say that e...

gabra ibrahim gabra; from modernism to postmodernism

in this research, accomplished consideration of fictional virtues of gabra ibrahim gabra in angle of his famous work, “research for valid mosoud” because of two cultural, social and literary progress modernism and post modernism is more obvious then his other works in form and con feat. gabra ibrahim gabra traced in this fictional work his artistic movement from modernism to post modernism in e...