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Tables of Contents for Structuralism
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xiii
2
Foreword to the Second Edition
xv
 
Introduction
1
10
1. What structuralism is
1
1
2. Situation and plan of the work
2
2
3. The concept of structure
4
2
4. Structure and intelligibility
6
5
PART IA--ASPECTS OF THE STRUCTURALIST MOVEMENT
11
48
1 Convergence
11
10
5. Beginnings
11
1
6. System and structure
12
2
7. Bourbaki and group structure
14
2
8. Cassirer and the "symbolic forms"
16
5
2 Structuralism in France
21
20
9. Paris fashions
21
2
10. Mind in its natural state
23
3
11. Structural transformations
26
2
12. Stability and subjectivity
28
2
13. The word of the patient
30
2
14. The end of man
32
2
15. Critical work
34
2
16. Complexity and humanity
36
5
3 Structuralism in America
41
18
17. The New World and the postwar period
41
2
18. Morgan and Peirce
43
2
19. Structural linguistics
45
4
20. Structural anthropology
49
2
21. Structure and violence
51
2
22. Criticism, new and even newer
53
6
PART IB--LANGUAGE AND THE HUMAN SCIENCES
59
110
4 The Linguistic Base I: The Cours de linguistique generale
59
24
23. The natural history of language
59
3
24. Language as system
62
4
25. Langue and parole
66
4
26. The doctrine of the sign
70
6
27. Interpretation and linguistic value
76
4
28. A Saussurean aberration: the anagrams
80
3
5 The Linguistic Base II: After Saussure
83
26
29. The structure of the system
83
3
30. Oppositions
86
3
31. Double articulation
89
3
32. From distinctive features to free discourse
92
3
33. Distributive and mathematical structure
95
5
34. Diachrony and the acquisition of language
100
5
35. Formalism and complexity
105
4
6 The Social Superstructure
109
36
36. Semiotics, linguistics, structuralism
109
5
37. Signs without language
114
2
38. The mythical structure of the world
116
5
39. Relations in society
121
3
40. Individuals and idiosyncrasies
124
3
41. The human family
127
3
42. The exchange of gifts
130
3
43. The prohibition of incest
133
4
44. Structure and sentiment
137
4
45. The reality of social structure
141
4
7 Humanistic Structures and Deconstructions
145
24
46. The humanities and the human sciences
145
4
47. History as archaeology
149
6
48. Varieties of religious belief
155
4
49. The practice of writing
159
2
50. A short course in deconstruction
161
8
PART II--STRUCTURALISM AS PHILOSOPHY
169
92
8 Structure as a Necessary and Sufficient Condition of Intelligibility
169
14
51. Structuralism and philosophy
169
2
52. Russell and the structure of relations
171
4
53. Carnap and structural descriptions
175
2
54. Wittgenstein on form and structure
177
6
9 Meaning in Life, Language, and Philosophy
183
14
55. Meaning and the signiferous
183
2
56. The delusion of global meaning
185
1
57. The life of meaning
186
3
58. Meaning in thought and language
189
5
59. The language of philosophy
194
3
10 Mind, Structure, and System
197
22
60. System building
197
3
61. Local and global systems
200
4
62. Necessitation and accommodation
204
4
63. The multiplicity of mind
208
4
64. Apposition and mental structure
212
3
65. Instruction and optimum complexity
215
4
11 Human Nature and Society
219
18
66. The distribution of structures
219
1
67. Operational and representational models
220
6
68. Explanatory models and social structures
226
4
69. Models and mind-dependence
230
7
12 Structuralism, Materialism, and Phenomenology
237
16
70. Singularity and incompleteness in systematic description
237
2
71. The persistence of the subject
239
2
72. The stuff of the world
241
1
73. The insistence of materialism
242
4
74. The world of relations
246
4
75. Subjectivity and structural materialism
250
3
Postscript on Poststructuralism
253
8
76. Macaulay's anchor
253
3
77. Synchronicity
256
1
78. The poststructuralist scene
257
4
List of Works Cited
261
10
Index
271