Concept
Structuralism
Overview
Structuralism is an intellectual current and methodological approach, primarily in the social sciences, that interprets elements of human culture by way of their relationship to a broader system. It works to uncover the structural patterns that underlie all things that humans do, think, perceive, and feel.
Alternatively, 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 structure."
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But all philosophy is either cognition on the basis of pure reason, or the cognition of reason on the basis of empirical principles. The former is termed pure, the latter empirical philosophy.
Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason
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On the contrary, by this methodology is understood the mode in which we can give the laws of pure practical reason access to the human mind and influence on its maxims, that is, by which we can make the objectively practical reason subjectively practical also.
Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Practical Reason
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Inquiry into the influence of structure on function as seen in successions of organisms, introduces us to such phenomena as Mr. Darwin's _Origin of Species_ deals with. In this category come all proofs of the general truth, that when an individual is enabled by a certain structural peculiarity to perform better than others of its species some advantageous action; and when it bequeaths…
Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Biology, Volume 1
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Philosophers who discussed Structuralism
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Ferdinand de Saussure
- Slavoj Žižek
- Roland Barthes
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Jean Baudrillard
- Jean-François Lyotard
- Michel Foucault
- Jacques Derrida
- Mikhail Bakhtin
- Louis Althusser
- Henri Lefebvre
- Tzvetan Todorov
- Roy Bhaskar
- André Gorz
- Peter Serracino Inglott
- Aleksei Losev
- Women in classical Athens
- François Dosse
- Walter J. Ong
Related ideas
- Prague linguistic circle
- Manchester University Press
- French language
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Formal language
- Social system
- Ferdinand de Saussure
- Gilles Deleuze
- Course in General Linguistics
- Immanuel Kant
- Japanese language
- Philosophy of social science
- Jacques Lacan
- Jürgen Habermas
- Feeling
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Secret society
- Roland Barthes
- Paradigm
- Sociology
- Mathematics
- Structural linguistics
- Literature
- Marxism
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- Nikolai Trubetzkoy
- Prague linguistic circle
- Protests of 1968
- Roman Jakobson
- Romeo and Juliet
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- Antoine Meillet
- Reading Capital
- Vladimir Propp
- Nicos Poulantzas
- François Châtelet
- Hachette Livre
- Winfried Nöth
- Algirdas Julien Greimas
- Intertextuality
- Archetypal literary criticism
- Functional linguistics
- John Rupert Firth
- Seminars of Jacques Lacan
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