Cogito

Volume 10, Issue 1, Spring 1996

Puppets and Pebbles and Ripples and Strings
Structuralism and Post-structuralism Contrasted

This last of three articles on Structuralism and Post-structuralism attempts to do four things: (1) to summarize the dispute between Structuralism and Post-structuralism about the stability of meaning; (2) to present three criticisms of Derrida’s dissemination; (3) to assess the worth of these criticisms; and (4) to offer some concluding remarks on Structuralism and Post-structuralism.