Eugenio Donato
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Armenian-Italian deconstructionist, literary critic, and “philosophical critic”. Raised in Egypt, and educated in France, he played an important role in teaching Americans how to read post-structural
Post-structuralism
Post-structuralism is a label formulated by American academics to denote the heterogeneous works of a series of French intellectuals who came to international prominence in the 1960s and '70s...

 theory.

He edited, with Richard Macksey, the book The Structuralist Controversy: The Languages of Criticism and the Sciences of Man.

See also

  • Rodolphe Gasché
    Rodolphe Gasché
    Rodolphe Gasché holds the Eugenio Donato Chair of Comparative Literature at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.- Career :Gasché obtained his doctorate from the Freie Universität Berlin, where he has also taught...

     currently holds the Eugenio Donato Chair of Comparative Literature at the University of Buffalo,

  • Jacques Derrida
    Jacques Derrida
    Jacques Derrida was a French philosopher, born in French Algeria. He developed the critical theory known as deconstruction and his work has been labeled as post-structuralism and associated with postmodern philosophy...


  • Critical theory
    Critical theory
    Critical theory is an examination and critique of society and culture, drawing from knowledge across the social sciences and humanities. The term has two different meanings with different origins and histories: one originating in sociology and the other in literary criticism...


  • deconstruction
    Deconstruction
    Deconstruction is a term introduced by French philosopher Jacques Derrida in his 1967 book Of Grammatology. Although he carefully avoided defining the term directly, he sought to apply Martin Heidegger's concept of Destruktion or Abbau, to textual reading...


  • Gustave Flaubert
    Gustave Flaubert
    Gustave Flaubert was a French writer who is counted among the greatest Western novelists. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary , and for his scrupulous devotion to his art and style.-Early life and education:Flaubert was born on December 12, 1821, in Rouen,...


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