Discourse Theory


Primary Sources   I   Discourse Theory


Louis Althusser, Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (trans. Ben Brewster, 1971).

M. M. Bakhtin, "Discourse in the Novel," The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (ed. Michael Holquist, 1981).

Pierre Bourdieu, Esquisse d’une theorie de la pratique, précédé de trois études d’ethnologie kabyle (1972 , Outline of a Theory of Practice, trans. Richard Nice, 1977).

Pierre Bourdieu, Homo Academicus (1984, Homo Academicus, trans. Peter Collier, 1988).

Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron, La Reproduction: Éléments pour une theorie du système d’enseignement (1970, Reproduction in Education, Society, and Culture, trans. Richard Nice, 1977).

Hélène Cixous, "Le Rire de la Méduse" (1975, "The Laugh of the Medusa," trans. Keith Cohen and Paula Cohen, Signs 1 [1976]).

Michel Foucault, L’Archéologie du savoir (1969, The Archaeology of Knowledge, trans. A. M. Sheridan Smith, 1972).

Michel Foucault, "Truth and Power," Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972–1977 (ed. and trans. Colin Gordon, 1980).

Hans-Georg Gadamer, Wahrheit und Methode: Grundzüge einer philosophischen Hermeneutik (1960, 5th ed., Gesammelte Werke, vol. 1, ed. J. C. B. Mohr, 1986, Truth and Method, ed. and trans. Garrett Burden and John Cumming, 1975, 2d ed., trans. rev. Joel Weinsheimer and Donald G. Marshall, 1989).

Jürgen Habermas, Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns, vol. 1, Handlungsrationalität und gesellschaftliche Rationalisierung (1981, The Theory of Communicative Action, vol. 1, Reason and the Rationalization of Society, trans. Thomas McCarthy, 1983).

Rom Harré et al., eds., Rethinking Psychology (1995).

Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act (1981).

Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Hegemony and Socialist Strategies (1985).

Michel Pêcheux, Les Vérités de la Palice (1975, Language, Semantics, and Ideology, trans. Harbans Nagpal, 1982).

V. N. Voloshinov, Marksizm i filosofiia iazyka (1929, Marxism and the Philosophy of Language, trans. Ladislav Matejka and  I. R. Titunik, 1973).