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The Belief in a Just World: A Fundamental Delusion
Melvin Lerner

Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction

Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction - Catherine Belsey Most of the time she succeeds in conveying these ideas to a lay audience but it doesn't always work. There are moments when she cannot (or does not, or will not) explain what connection there is between this idea and that. Some of the ideas feel like they pop out of nowhere, as if this were excerpts from a larger work, or smaller ones pasted together. Like the was majority of posties, she cannot provide a convincing argument for why the recognition of values as (mostly) non-absolute automatically entails a Marxist or "radical" view of things. Human beings remain human beings, regardless of whether their values come from language or from the ether.