Poststructuralism emerged as a coherent ‘68 thought’ constellation

Evidence

This erasure of the distinction between philosophy and literature leads Derrida to write books some of which - Glas, for example, in their punning, allusive style, their endless unravelling of the meanings of words, their reflexive absorption in exposing their own rhetorical nature, resemble nothing more than Modernist works of art. But this is merely an extreme case of a feature common by to all the main representatives of what Luc Ferry and Alain Renaut call ‘“68 thought” or, if you will permit the expression, … “French philoso­ phy of the 68 years”, … a constellation of works chronologically near to May, and, above all, whose authors were recognized, most often explicitly, as having contributed to inspiring the movement.’ — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 290

Categorization

• XREF: Ferry and Renaut’s ‘68 thought’ framing connects to the French 68 Thought tradition and how Foucault’s later genealogical turn is periodized within it — relevant to how Myra Reader reads Foucault’s counter-history work. — connects to: Post-structuralist thinkers displaced existentialism by treating philosophy as a game of signs — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 87