Summarizing post-structuralism faces an initial challenge since as a style and a form of thought it submits to self-reflexive criticism the identity, clarity, and fixedness of delineation itself. By definition it problematizes definition in ways that take issue with the task of concise historical appraisal. Still, we can distinguish two generative scenes: French thought in the 1960s and 1970s, and its global reception. Reflecting complex similarities to and differences from structuralism, post-structuralist styles of thought came to be associated with diverse figures such as Louis Althusser, Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Hélène Cixous, Guy Debord, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Félix Guattari, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Lacan, and Jean-François Lyotard. The term post-structuralism, however, never resonated a great deal in France itself.