2018-05-21
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So even though the insights of structuralism were massively influential in the progression of human thought,
it's really only around for a couple years before it starts to face some pretty heavy critiques from people,
and these critiques generally fall into one of two broad categories.
One category are critiques of the actual works of structuralism itself,
but the other category of critiques is something actually much more fundamental.
It's a critique that's much more internal to structuralism.
Structuralism in a sense starts to consume itself.
The beginning of this line of thinking is probably something many of you listen to this have already thought about just
as we've been talking about this.
The idea is, so if our subjectivity and the ideas we have about the way the world is,
is not actually the way the world is,
but is instead a mythology that has been given to us by an almost infinitely narrow set of cultural parameters that dictate what it is possible for us to think.
Wait a second, didn't the ideas of structuralism emerge out of that very same narrow climate?
What does that say about structuralism?
A little further down that line of thinking, what would happen if the fields of economics,
anthropology, sociology, history, and most importantly philosophy,