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Part Two: Superstructuralism becomes philosophical Preliminaries 6 Metaphysical philosophy 7 More Structural Linguistics 8 Althusser and science g Foucault as archaeologist Preliminaries Saussure and the concept of'langue' From Durkheim to Levi-Strauss Lacan's Freud Althusser's Marx Barthes and Semiotics Part One: The Superstructuralist way of thinking 1 For him, everything in the world is merely a pretext for talking to other men or for talking to himsel( Funeral oration, by Orfeo the dog on Augusto the man, in Miguel de Unamuno's novel Mist As soon as he gives a thing a name he ceases to see the thing itself he only hears the name that he gave it or sees it written. And this has enabled him to invent what does not exist and to overlook what exists. When a man howls or shouts or threatens, we other animals understand him very well! Then his attention is not in that other world! But he barks in a way all his own - he speaks. g6 B841 ♴ ISBN 2-5 Pbk Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Harland, Richard, 1947Superstructuralism: the philosophy of structuralism and post-structuralism. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Harland, Richard Superstructuralism: the philosophy of structuralism and post-structuralism. No part of this hook may he reprinted or reproduced or utili~ed in any form or by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval ~stem, without permission in writing from the publishers. © 1g87 Richard Harland Photoset by Rowland Phototypesetting Ltd Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Printed in England by Clays Ltd, St Ives pie All rights reserved. Ltd Reprinted 1991 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London ECp' 4,EE 29 West 35th Street, New rork Nr 10001 Su pers tru cturalisn1 The Philosophy of Structuralism and Post-Structuralismįirst published in 1g87 by Methuen & Co.

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