Why There Is No Poststructuralism in France

French thinkers such as Lacan and Derrida are often labelled as representatives of ''poststructuralism'' in the Anglophone world. However in France, where their work originated, they use no such category; this group of theorists – ''the poststructuralists'' - were never perceived as a coherent intellectual group or movement.

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