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Full Idea
Structuralism is a form of neo-Kantian idealism, in which the job of creating Kant's phenomenal world has been taken over by language instead of forms of sensibility and categories of the understanding.
Gist of Idea
Structuralism is neo-Kantian idealism, with language playing the role of categories of understanding
Source
Mark Rowlands (Externalism [2003], Ch.3)
Book Ref
Rowlands,Mark: 'Externalism' [Acumen 2003], p.48
A Reaction
A helpful connection, which explains my aversion to any attempt at understanding the world simply by analysing language, either in its ordinary usage, or in its underlying logical form.
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| 15038 | Structuralism systematically abstracted the event from sciences, and even from history [Foucault] |
| 21895 | Structuralism destroys awareness of dynamic meaning [Derrida] |
| 6161 | Structuralism is neo-Kantian idealism, with language playing the role of categories of understanding [Rowlands] |
| 21944 | Structuralism describes human phenomena in terms of unconscious structures [Gutting] |