The roots of Structuralism
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2024
- This lecture describes the origins of a structuralist view of language in the eighteenth century attempt to explain human knowledge without recourse to God.
The focus ends up being the figure of the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, but what this lecture tries to do is show why Structuralism, a form of nominalism, seems a plausible theory of language.
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It's interesting that the grunge band Nirvana from Seattle in the 90s wrote songs in which the lyrics didn't hold logical meaning per sa, but primarily the lyrical phrases were crafted and chosen on the basis of phonetic quality with a melody and how they felt in the song.
In other words the lyrics in themselves were meaningless, it was more about making you feel something.
and letting the hearer determine their own meaning . as someone who grew up in Olympia WA in that scene, looking back I was clueless about the conveyor belt of ideas and culture I was riding on.
30:57. rousseau oppressed by language and rationalism, feeling is more important. reminds me of the tension between the letter of the law and the spirit of law. go too hard to one side or the other and its a mess. Christ embodies the 2 perfectly. us mortals not so much, even the believers 😂
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Continental Rationalism is its root, but it is still very difficult to trace the beginning of that intellectual umbrella term. Even Piaget is part of that. Well, let's listen to Dr. Masson.
Want some detailed videos on Derrida's theory. The roots and sources, etc.
1:08:39. study of lit, language, words, truth took in new dimension of significance when they found that organisms run on code. and the bios had to borrow terminology from scribes to describe what they found in cells (transcription, translation, genome as a "book". etc.). in a sane world the materialists and structuralists would have packed up and got real jobs driving trucks. but no... the ground had already been well plowed
Great point
I am reading the Real Presence now, it is too hard for me and I even want to give up, maybe I should finish it🤣 By the way, other books of Steiner are interesting.