{"product_id":"structuralism-and-poststructuralism-for-beginners-9781934389102","title":"Structuralism and Poststructuralism for Beginners","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"What is Structuralism? How is it possible? And once the structures of Structuralism have been discovered, how is Poststructuralism possible?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThus begins Don Palmer's \u003ci\u003eStructuralism and Poststructuralism For Beginners\u003c\/i\u003e. If Nobel or Pulitzer ever made a prize for making the most difficult philosophers and ideas accessible to the greatest number of people, one of the leading candidates would certainly be Professor Don Palmer. From his \u003ci\u003eSartre For Beginners\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eKierkegaard For Beginners\u003c\/i\u003e to his \u003ci\u003eLooking at Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e, author\/illustrator Don Palmer has the magic touch when it comes to translating the most brutally difficult ideas into language and images that non-specialists can understand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In its less dramatic versions,\" writes Palme, \"structuralism is just a method of studying language, society, and the works of artists and novelists. But in its most exuberant form, it is a philosophy, an overall worldview that provides an account of reality and knowledge.\" Poststructuralism is a loosely knit intellectual movement, comprised mainly of ex-structuralists, who either became dissatisfied with the theory or felt they could improve it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eStructuralism and Poststructuralism For Beginners\u003c\/i\u003e is an illustrated tour through the mysterious landscape of Structuralism and Poststructuralism. The book's starting point is the linguistic theory of Ferdinand de Sausser. The book moves on to the anthropologist and literary critic Claude L?vi-Strauss; the semiologost and literary critic Roland Barthes; the Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser; the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan; the deconstructionist Jacques Derrida. Learn among other things, why structuralists say: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReality is composed of not Things, but Relationships\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEvery \"object\" is both a presence and an absence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe total system is present in each of its parts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe parts are more real than the whole\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book concludes by examining the postmodern obsession with language and with the radical claim of the disappearance of the individual - obsessions that unite the work of all these theorists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDonald Palmer\u003c\/b\u003e is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the College of Marin in Kentfield, California. Currently he is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. He is also author of \u003ci\u003eSartre For Beginners, Looking at Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDoes the Center Hold?\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"For Beginners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51199318196498,"sku":"9781934389102","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7d15f991-4174-4d6b-aa64-1af7489c0794.jpg?v=1744874793","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/structuralism-and-poststructuralism-for-beginners-9781934389102","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}