By Miriam Glucksmann
The fundamental difficulty of this booklet is to enquire even if structuralism constitutes a particular framework within the social sciences. the writer makes a speciality of significant structuralist thinkers, Louis Althusser and Claude Lévi-Strauss. She analyses and compares the constitution in their conception, and areas them in the context in their respective disciplines. Dr Glucksmann all started engaged on this publication at a time whilst structuralism used to be on the top of its acceptance in France, and used to be regarded as a homogenous replacement to bourgeois sociology. The development of her learn implicitly displays the advancements and divergences inside of structuralist suggestion that experience emerged in view that then. particularly, she examines the diversities among the political and philosophical considered Althusser and Lévi-Strauss, that have develop into more and more manifest.
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