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- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Copyright
- © Oxford University Press 1991
- ISSN
- 0264-8334
- eISSN
- 1750-0176
- DOI
- 10.3366/para.1991.0016
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
1. Where is the philosophy of structuralism? W h a t has happened to philosophy after structuralism? Obviously I am not speaking here o f the whole discipline o f philosophy but only o f those areas where there has been a concern for and a reflection on the issues o f anthropology. Let me begin by addressing first a question o f translation. It is not difficult to explain what structuralism meant in the field o f anthropology. N o b o d y disputes the existence o f a body o f insights and studies which deserves to be called 'structural anthropology'. If one wants to know more about the structuralist forms o f explanation, one only has to read the classics o f structural anthropology, beginning with the two volumes published under that title by Claude Lévi-Strauss. But where are the classics o f structural philosophy? Indeed what would a 'structural philosophy' l o o k like? N o b o d y uses the phrase 'structural philosophy'! N o philosophy has been produced under that n a m e , except in the old sense o f a vitalistic theory o f the organization
Journal
Paragraph – Edinburgh University Press
Published: Nov 1, 1991