Post-structuralism

Post-structuralism is a label formulated by American academics to denote the heterogeneous works of a series mid-20th-century French and continental philosophers and critical theorists who came to international prominence in the 1960s and '70s. A major theme of poststructuralism is instability in the human sciences, due to the complexity of humans themselves and to the impossibility of fully escaping structures in order to study them.