The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

PREMIUM-Episode 51: Semiotics and Structuralism (Saussure, et al)

Feb 24, 2012 · 26 min · 25.3 MBExplicit

0:00-26:15

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On Ferdinand de Saussure's Course in General Linguistics (1916) (Part I and Part II, Ch. 4), Claude Levi-Strauss's "The Structural Study of Myth" (1955), and Jacques Derrida's "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences" (1966). What is language? What is the relation between language and reality? With guest C. Derick Varn. Get the full discussion at partiallyexaminedlife.com.