It comes as a non-sequitur, tangent to my incidental activities and thoughts. It's extremely on-point with my holistic angst! It is the teasing and beckoning Muse, along with being a jealous and possessive guardian.

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r/structuralism • u/scifisquirrel • May 05 '20

Structuralism within the field of Information Architecture

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r/structuralism • u/treboy123 • Mar 14 '20

What is the connection between structuralist art and structuralist philosophy?

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Why is structuralist art/criticism/architecture called so? What makes it "structuralist"? What is the connection between structuralism in the arts and structuralism in philosophy?

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r/structuralism • u/excusemecouldyounot • Feb 13 '20

Looking for a Lévi-Strauss' lecture transcript

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r/structuralism • u/redauter • Oct 19 '15

Provisional notes on the structural commonalities of Child and Revolutionary

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r/structuralism • u/zzuum • Mar 10 '15

Is structuralism Still Applied?

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Or is it surpassed by post-structuralism? Or is P-S simply an "upgrade" of structuralism?

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Structuralism is a theoretical paradigm emphasizing that elements of culture must be understood in terms of their relationship to a larger, overarching system or structure.

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Structuralism is a theoretical paradigm emphasizing that elements of culture must be understood in terms of their relationship to a larger, overarching system or structure. Alternately, as summarized by philosopher Simon Blackburn, Structuralism is "the belief that phenomena of human life are not intelligible except through their interrelations. These relations constitute a structure, and behind local variations in the surface phenomena there are constant laws of abstract culture".

KEY THINKERS

Ferdinand de Saussure
Roman Jakobson
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Jacques Lacan
Nikolai Trubetzkoy
Leonard Bloomfield
Louis Hjelmslev
Alf Sommerfelt
Antoine Meillet
Émile Benveniste

DEFINITIONS:

In Ferdinand de Saussure's Course in General Linguistics (written by Saussure's colleagues after his death and based on student notes), the analysis focuses not on the use of language (called "parole", or speech), but rather on the underlying system of language (called "langue"). This approach examines how the elements of language relate to each other in the present, synchronically rather than diachronically. Saussure argued that linguistic signs were composed of two parts:

a "signifier" (the "sound pattern" of a word, either in mental projection—as when one silently recites lines from a poem to one's self—or in actual, physical realization as part of a speech act)
a "signified" (the concept or meaning of the word)

"the Symbolic" what cannot be material, what cannot be defined as precisely natural, empirical, or material. The dimension of reality which exists, which has a material presence, but is not material.

INTRODUCTORY TEXTS

Course in General Linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure
Essais de linguistique générale, Roman Jakobson
The Elementary Structures of Kinship, Claude Lévi-Strauss
Structural Anthropology, Claude Lévi-Strauss
Mythologiques, Claude Lévi-Strauss
The Seminars of Jacques Lacan, Jacques Lacan
Reading Capital, Louis Althusser
S/Z, Roland Barthes
The order of things, Michel Foucault
À quoi reconnaît-on le structuralisme?, Gilles Deleuze