Estudos pós-estruturalistas: entre aporias e contra-sensos?

Abstract

This paper problematizes some of the questioning directed at the analytical field defined as poststructuralism It devotes special attention to three critiques, namely: an apology of difference – which derives from a contradictory notion of plurality and identity, total relativism – which results in the lack of distinction between good and evil, and a totalising notion of discourse – where language becomes a transcendent. This article presents arguments that refute those critiques, using Michel Foucault’s analytic perspective, in an attempt to give visibility to the construction of counter-sense, possibly inherent to intellectual work.