“The model of science frequently derided by post-structuralism is usually a positivist one — some version of the nineteenth-century rationalistic claim to a transcendental, value-free knowledge of ‘the facts’. This model is actually a straw target. It does not exhaust the term ‘science’, and nothing is to be gained by this caricature of scientific self-reflection.”
— Terry Eagleton, “Post-Structuralism,” Literary Theory: An Introduction
