عنوان

Structuralism :

(Number (ISBN

9401022518

(Number (ISBN

9789401022514

Number

b594376

Title Proper

Structuralism :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

Moscow-Prague-Paris

First Statement of Responsibility

by Jan M. Broekman.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Dordrecht

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer Netherlands

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1974

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(140 pages)

Series Title

Synthese Library, Monographs on Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, Philosophy of Science, Sociology of Science and of Knowledge, and on the Mathematical Methods of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 67.

Text of Note

1 / The Structuralist Endeavour --; 1. The World as Musical Score --; 2. The Concept of 'Structure' --; 3. Epistemological Grounds --; 4. Sociology and Structuralism --; 2 / Moscow --; 1. Constellations --; 2. Russian Formalism --; 3. Formalism and Marxism --; 3 / Prague --; 1. Constellations --; 2. Czech Structuralism --; 4 / Paris --; 1. Constellations --; 2. Parisian Structuralism --; 3. Philosophical Designs --; 5 / What is Structuralistic Philosophizing? --; 1. Series --; 2. Ordo --; Index of Names --; Index of Subjects.

Text of Note

The use of the word 'structuralism', not only as a title for the present book but also as a valuable indication for outstanding philosophical and cultural developments of our century, may embarrass the English reader. The same might be the case regarding some of the philosophical thoughts developed in connexion with this structuralism. Emphasis is namely not on a set of technical operations using ideas and conceptions closely linked up with 'structural' or 'systematical' analyses, system and in formation theories, biology, psychology and even literary criticism. On the contrary, the concept of structuralism here defmitely refers to a holistic approach, not unlike existentialism or phenomenology. Many philosophical implications of this structuralism are however quite different from those contained in existential philosophies. The first difference applies to philosophy itself: no existential thinker will doubt or deny that the thoughts developed are genuine philoso phical thoughts. Structuralism however does not take that decision before hand, and thus no longer restricts itself to the traditionallaws and habits of philosophical reasoning. It presents itself on the one hand as a holistic attempt to interpret reality among lines of philosophical argumentation, bu t tries to do so without the decision that this argumentation leads to philoso phy. Structuralism therefore presents itself as a specific activity, a modus operandi in reality itself.

Philosophy & Religion.

Philosophy (General)

Social sciences -- Philosophy.

by Jan M. Broekman.

Jan M Broekman

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[Book]

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