Books by Alec McHoul

Presents a theory of meaning that the author calls effective semiotics - a theory that investigates the ways in which signs have meaning by virtue of their actual uses. This book advances its own comprehensive theory of signs while ably examining works by such philosophers and theorists as Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Derrida, Foucault, and Habermas.

An introductory guide to one of the seminal thinkers in social and cultural theory. The text provides an explanation and critique of Foucault's idea in relation to Marxist theory, structural linguistics and social thought, organized around central