The attitude of the French structuralism to the classic bourgeois rationalism begins with repulsion. Reflecting on own practice the special scientific studies, structuralism criticizes such the basic abstraction of classical bourgeois rationalism, such as the idea of linear improvement of preset properties of the mind in the history of culture, on "transparency" to the knowing subject's own consciousness, on reducibility of all layers and levels of consciousness to a single the rational center, and the preset unity of human nature and the fundamental homogeneity of all civilizations with the European civilization of the new time. Criticism of these basic abstractions classical rationalism is directed at the structuralists on the build a new model for the justification of knowledge. Structuralism as a whole seeks to rationally reconstruct those aspects of social actually, the explanation for which the limitations of classical bourgeois rationalism is revealed most clearly. Objects of the scientific analysis, structuralism becomes exotic geographical -- social organization and spiritual the structure of primitive tribes (Levi-Strauss); the exotic inner world man with all the depths of the unconscious and unconscious layers of his psychosomatic structure (J. Lacan); exotic past, efficiently a kind of periods their own cultural history (Foucault, partly R. Barth). Moreover, for structuralism is characterized by the use of language and some of the methods of its study as the basis of scientific and other human cognition, or include natural language as part element or understood by analogy with language as a symbolic meaning system.
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The attitude of the French structuralism to the classic bourgeois
rationalism begins with repulsion. Reflecting on own practice
the special scientific studies, structuralism criticizes such
the basic abstraction of classical bourgeois rationalism, such as
the idea of linear improvement of preset properties of the mind in
the history of culture, on "transparency" to the knowing subject's own
consciousness, on reducibility of all layers and levels of consciousness to a single
the rational center, and the preset unity of human nature and
the fundamental homogeneity of all civilizations with the European
civilization of the new time. Criticism of these basic abstractions
classical rationalism is directed at the structuralists on the build
a new model for the justification of knowledge. Structuralism as a whole
seeks to rationally reconstruct those aspects of social
actually, the explanation for which the limitations of classical
bourgeois rationalism is revealed most clearly. Objects of the scientific
analysis, structuralism becomes exotic
geographical -- social organization and spiritual
the structure of primitive tribes (Levi-Strauss); the exotic inner world
man with all the depths of the unconscious and unconscious layers of his
psychosomatic structure (J. Lacan); exotic past, efficiently
a kind of periods their own cultural history (Foucault, partly
R. Barth). Moreover, for structuralism is characterized by the use of language and
some of the methods of its study as the basis of scientific and other
human cognition, or include natural language as part
element or understood by analogy with language as a symbolic meaning
system.
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