From: MATTHEW PAUL KUNDERT (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Tue May 27 2003 - 21:24:22 BST
Sam,
I did provide a very brief and very sparse overview a ways back:
"Structuralism says that there are deep, inherent, essential, universal, ahistorical structures in humans (or anything else for that matter). Levi-Strauss and Lacan both claimed to have found a deep psychic structure for which all humans have. This puts them right into the Cartesian camp for Descartes also said that all humans have a psychic unity."
Levi-Strauss is the most prominent name that comes to mind in structuralism. I'm not sure about all the specifics, but it was mainly a French movement, with obvious tie-ins to the rest of the history of philosophy.
Post-structuralism is also a mainly French movement and its leading proponents are Foucault (though he was originally thought of as being a structuralist), Derrida, Barthes, and Lyotard (I believe).
My knowledge of the specifics of structuralism and post-structuralism as movements is actually fairly limited. What this thread grew into, though, was a discussion about hierarchies (because of an early confusion of what I was saying), and how I denied not having any and no one else believed me.
But that's the way it goes around here. Nobody believes me ;-)
Matt
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