Monday, September 19, 2005
(7:40 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
Introductions
An informal survey for graduate students in the humanities:How many times have you been "introduced" to structuralism? (By this I mean either a lecture or an assigned reading that assumed that you didn't know anything about the topic, starting way back with Saussure, signifier/signified, parole/langue, etc.) If it was a lecture setting, how many of those times did someone indignantly raise his or her hand, asking, "Okay, so wait a minute -- where does the real world come in?"
