Existentialism to Post-Structuralism

Peter J. Leithart
February 27, 2010
Category: Philosophy

Terry Eagleton suggests in his Terry Lectures (Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate (The Terry Lectures Series) [1]) that existentialism “was for the most part an ontologically imposing way of saying that one was nineteen, far from home, feeling rather blue, and like a toddler in a play school hadn’t much of a clue as to what was going on.  A few decades later this condition persisted among late adolescents, but it was now known as post-structuralism.”

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