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| Structuralism: Structuralism in philosophy is an approach that analyzes phenomena by examining their underlying structures and organizing principles. It emphasizes the relationships and interdependencies between elements rather than their individual qualities, aiming to uncover fundamental patterns and principles. Structuralists believe that these structures can be found in all aspects of human experience, from language to culture to society. See also F. de Saussure, Cl. Lévi-Strauss, M. Foucault._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Michel Foucault on Structuralism - Dictionary of Arguments
II 9ff Structuralism/Foucault: that certain problems can be found elsewhere, for example ethnology, linguistics, economics, can be called structuralism. But they have not been imported from one area to the other, but have their origin in the field of history itself. Old view: the subject had a donor function. Their correlative: the continuous history as a guarantee that everything that has escaped the subject can be restored to it. Time is understood as totalization, and the revolutions are always only ideational realizations. What is now mourned is not so much the disappearance of history but its form. One even realizes that Marx or Nietzsche do not guarantee the security of what was entrusted to them. FoucaultVsAnthropologism: it is not about idealtypes, worldviews, cultural totals, epochs, which are respectively related to humans. (II 28). II 9ff Archeology/Foucault: this book does not ask for the structure, but rather for the field in which the questions of human being, the consciousness, the origin and the subject manifest, cross and specify themselves. But no doubt one would not be wrong to say that the problem of structure also arises here. >Archeology/Foucault. II 283f Structuralism/Foucault: I did not want to lead the undertaking beyond its legitimate boundaries. In "the order of things" I have not used the term structure a single time. Structuralism: Thought image: our play of displacement and underestimation turns obliquely to all those forms of structuralism, which must be tolerated._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Foucault I M. Foucault Les mots et les choses: Une archéologie des sciences humaines , Paris 1966 - The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences, New York 1970 German Edition: Die Ordnung der Dinge. Eine Archäologie der Humanwissenschaften Frankfurt/M. 1994 Foucault II Michel Foucault l’Archéologie du savoir, Paris 1969 German Edition: Archäologie des Wissens Frankfurt/M. 1981 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-18