Structuralism and Since: From Lévi Strauss to DerridaJohn Sturrock This volume elucidates the structuralist phenomenon, a method of inquiry used by specialists first in linguistics and then in anthropology to organize and evaluate their findings. |
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... speech is truly original ( and sometimes disconcerting ) . With most writers , concrete metaphors , allegories , or examples tend to be used to illustrate or express more abstract ideas , but Lévi - Strauss's imagi- nation often works ...
... speech is truly original ( and sometimes disconcerting ) . With most writers , concrete metaphors , allegories , or examples tend to be used to illustrate or express more abstract ideas , but Lévi - Strauss's imagi- nation often works ...
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... speech but more significantly a defor- mation or distortion of speech . This view of writing is as old as philosophy itself : in the Phaedrus Plato condemns writing as a bastardized form of communication ; separated from the father or ...
... speech but more significantly a defor- mation or distortion of speech . This view of writing is as old as philosophy itself : in the Phaedrus Plato condemns writing as a bastardized form of communication ; separated from the father or ...
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... speech , Saussure's own argument shows that this relationship can be reversed and presents speech as a species of writing , a manifestation of the principles that are at work in writing . Here the ' logic of the supplement ' is ...
... speech , Saussure's own argument shows that this relationship can be reversed and presents speech as a species of writing , a manifestation of the principles that are at work in writing . Here the ' logic of the supplement ' is ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Claude LéviStrauss by Dan Sperber | 19 |
Roland Barthes by John Sturrock | 52 |
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