Bibliography ... or, a start to a bibliographic list of thinkers/texts to read in Post-Structuralism ...

​(in progress ... will be slowly growing ...)
  • Giorgio Agamben, Idea of Prose, trans. Michael Sullivan and Sam Whitsitt (NY: SUNY, 1995).
  • ––. The End of the Poem: Studies in Poetics, trans. Daniel Heller-Roazen (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1999).
  • Roland Barthes, Elements of Semiology, trans. Annette Lavers & Colin Smith (Hill & Wang, 1977).
  • ––.  Writing Degree Zero, trans. Annette Lavers & Colin Smith (Hill & Wang, 1977).
  • ––. Mythologies, trans. Richard Howard & Annette Lavers (Hill & Wang, 2013). 
  • ––.  The Pleasure of the Text, trans. Richard Miller (Hill & Wang, 1975). 
  • Georges Bataille, Eroticism: Death and Sensuality, trans. Mary Dalwood (San Francisco: City Lights, 1986).
  • Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulations, trans. Sheila Faria Glaser (U of Michigan Press, 1994).
  • Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections, ed. Hannah Arendt (Mariner Books, 2019).
  • Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution (Dover Publications, 1998).
  • Hélène Cixous, Stigmata: Escaping Texts (NY: Routledge, 1998).
  • Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle (Black & Red, 2002).
  • Gilles Deleuze, “How do we Recognize Structuralism?” in Desert Islands: and Other Texts, 1953-1974 (Cambridge, MA: Semiotext(e), 2004), 170-92 (nice for a delineation/analysis of key characteristics ).
  • ––. & Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, translated by Brian Massumi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987.
  • ––.  Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism & Schizophrenia (NY: Penguin, 2009).
  • Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology, trans. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 2016).
  • ––.  Writing & Difference, trans. Alan Bass (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978) (collection of essays (broad range of what/who, e.g. Jabès, Freud, Levinas, Husserl, Brecht, etc.), offers diverse paths to more thematic (rather than linguistic) intro to deconstruction​).
  • ––.  Margins of Philosophy, trans. Alan Bass (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985) (covers broad canonical spread).
  • ––.   Speech and Phenomenon [Voice and Phenomenon] … (explores structuralism/semiotics of de Saussure, Peirce, Royce, Rousseau, etc. in background, surface frequently, + modern & contemporary shift & focus on language (Descartes, Leibniz, & esp. Wittgenstein, etc.), text’s primary foil is Husserl (esp. Logical Investigations, also Ideas I & Phen. Of Internal Time-Cons.)).
  • ––.  The Ear of the Other: Otobiography, Transference, Translation, trans. Kamuf, ed. McDonald, New York: Schocken Books, 1985 (explores Nietzsche, also hints of sexuality, gender).
  • ––.  Le Toucher: Jean-Luc Nancy, Paris: Galilée, 2000.
  • ––.  Spurs: Nietzsche’s Styles (Chicago UP, 1981) (on Nietzsche, esp. concerning women, feminine sexuality).
  • ––.  On the Name,   trans. David Wood, John P. Leavey, jr., Ian McLeod (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995), isbn: 9780804725552.
  • ––.  Monolingualism of the Other or The Prothesis of Origin,   trans. Patrick Mensha (Stanford: Stanford U.P., 1998), isbn: 0804732982.
  • Umberto Eco, A Theory of Semiotics (Indiana UP, 1978).
  • Michel Foucault, The Order of Things (New York: Random House, 1970).
  • ––.  The Archeology of Knowledge, trans. A. M. Sheridan Smith (New York: Vintage Books, 2010).
  • Terence Hawkes, Structuralism & Semiotics (Routledge, 2003).
  • Luce Irigaray, “Any Theory of the ‘Subject’ has Always been Appropriated by the ‘Masculine’,” in Speculum of the Other Woman (Cornell UP, 1985), 133-46,  resonance with Cixous; explores/embodies shattering single subject of writing, the ‘becoming’ emphasized throughout post-structuralist thinkers. 
  • ––.  Je, tu, nous: Toward a Culture of Difference (Routledge, 1992), isbn: 978-0415905824.
  • ––. Speculum of the Other Woman (Cornell UP, 1985).
  • ––. An Ethics of Sexual Difference (Cornell UP, 1993).
  • ––. The Way of Love (Bloomsbury Academic, 2002).
  • Julia Kristeva, Revolution in Poetic Language, trans. Leon S. Roudiez (Columbia UP, 1984).
  • ––. Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art, trans. Thomas Gora and Alice A. Jardine (Columbia UP, 1980).
  • ––. Power of Horror: An Essay of Abjection (Columbia UP, 1982).
  • Jacques Lacan, Ecrits, trans. Bruce Fink (W. W. Norton, 2007).
  • ––.  The Seminar of …: On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge, trans. Bruce Fink (NY: W. W. Norton & Co., 1999).
  • Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Poetry as Experience, trans. Andrea Tarnowski (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1999).
  • Claude Lévi-Strauss, “Structural Analysis in Linguistics and in Anthropology” and “The Structural Study of Myth,” in Structural Anthropology  (New York: Basic Books, 1974) (exploring stereotype/gender as archetype).
  • ––.  Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture (Schocken, 1995).
  • ––.  The Savage Mind (U Of Chicago Press, 1966). 
  • Jean-François Lyotard, The Differend: Phrases in Dispute, trans. Georges Van Den Abbeele (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988), isbn: 0816616116.
  • ––.  The Differend: Phrases in Dispute, trans. Georges Van Den Abbeele (U of Minnesota Press, 1989).
  •  Paul de Man … Aesthetic Ideology, Resistance to Theory, Blindness & Insight  …
  • Jean-Luc Nancy, Dis-Enclosure: The Deconstruction of Christianity,   trans. Bettina Bergo, Gabriel Malenfant, Michael B. Smith (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008), isbn: 9780823228362.
  • ––.  Noli me Tangere: On the Raising of the Body, trans. Sarah Clift, Pascale-Anne Brault, Michael Naas (NY: Fordham University Press, 2008).
  • ––.  Listening, trans. Charlotte Mandell (NY: Fordham UP, 2007), isbn: 9780823227730.
  • Kelly Oliver, Witnessing: Beyond Recognition (Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2001), isbn: 978-0816636280.
  • ––.  Subjectivity without Subjects: From Abject Fathers to Desiring Mothers (Rowman & Littlefield, 1998). 
  • Ferdinand de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics, trans. Wade Baskin ( New York: Columbia University Press, 2011).

Anthologies, Readers, Intros., etc:
  • Deleuze and Feminist Theory, eds. Ian Buchanan and Claire Colebrook
  • French Feminism Reader, ed. Kelly Oliver (Roman & Littlefield, 2000), isbn: 978-0847697670.
  • The Irigaray Reader, ed. Margaret Whitford (Wiley-Blackwell, 1992) isbn: 978-0631170433.
  • The Kristeva Reader, eds. Julia Kristeva and Toril Moi, (Columbia Univ. Press, 1986)–esp. ch.II on women, psychoanalysis, politics.
  • Language and Liberation: Feminism, Philosophy, and Language, eds. Christina Hendricks and Kelly Oliver (NY: SUNY Press, 1999).
  • New French Feminisms: An Anthology, ed. Elaine Marks (U. of Mass. Press, 1979), isbn: 978-0870232800.



Mostly Online Resources, esp. for background and related but afield readings:
  • Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer, Ch.1, The Culture Industry (www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/culture-industry.htm).
  • Charles Darwin, Ch. III: “Struggle for Existence,” Origin of Species (www.marxists.org/reference/archive/darwin/works/origins/ch03.htm).
  • Franz Fanon, “Reciprocal Bases of Natl. Culture & Fight for Freedom,” Wretched of the Earth (www.marxists.org/subject/africa/fanon/national-culture.htm).
  • ​Hal Foster (editor), The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture (Port Townsend, WA: Bay Press, 1983).   
  • G.W.F. Hegel, “Lordship & Bondage,” Phenomenology of Spirit (www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/index.htm).
  • Friedrich Nietzsche, Ch.II, “The Free Spirit,” Beyond Good & Evil (www.marxists.org/reference/archive/nietzsche/1886/beyond-good-evil/ch02.htm).






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