Post-structuralism redirected otherness analysis from cultural systems to knowledge structures

Evidence

Foucault’s post-structuralism broke with the idea of cultures as systemic structures and shifted attention to structures of knowledge within and across cultures instead. Jacques Derrida (1978) rephrases the question of otherness in terms of identity and difference, thereby returning it to the wider terrain of philosophical questioning where it had originated. In Derrida’s method of the deconstruction of texts, the dissembly of structures continues infinitesimally. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 203

Categorization

• DEFINE: Charts the methodological break between Levi-Straussian structuralist ‘binary othering’ and post-structuralist discourse approaches to otherness.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 203