Thesis Statement 8 examples

Jacques Derrida, "Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of
the Human Sciences." How we make meaning is the art of myth-making itself, and to conceive of a new discourse, we must first abandon some old mythologicals (which we cannot do), for structure has no center, sign has no signified (no references are privileged), and play (of signification, presence/absence, history) precedes everything.--Mike

For Nietzsche truth is an illusion, things we see as true are merely forgotten illusions, metaphors so overused, they become meaningless; truth requires the "right perception" which, according to Nietzsche, is a standard that does not exist, therefore, truth remains an unobtainable entity.--Jerry

Post-structuralism assumes that language allows/forces(?) humans to arrange "things" into categories as a result of a human-constructed "reason" or "logic" that is removed from "truth" in such a way that it permits humans to categorize these "things" based on an artificial hierarchy of political/social/cultural importance; because of this, post-structuralism also assumes that inequality can be abolished by doing away with or re-creating these "logical/rational" categorizations and significations.--Melissa

(Tompkins and Rivkin&Ryan)
Post-structuralism breaks with the key proposition of structuralism: rather than arguing using undeniable,
“natural,” and “self-evident” philosophical categories of rationalism, post-structuralism destroys the
epistemological unity of the world, turning it into a cyclonic multiplicity and simultaneity of
signification; illustrating this, although Derrida starts out with the Saussurean “arbitrariness” of the
sign, he reaches a different point; whereas Saussure maintains a distinction between objects of the world
and language, Derrida proposes an idea of world and language, which are not separable. --Iana