S4 EP 7 - Structure, Sign, and Play
Jan 25, 2023•54 min•Season 4Ep. 7
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Episode description
In this episode, we discuss Derrida's essay, "Structure, Sign, and Play."
Topics covered include:
- the relationship between ethnocentrism and metaphysics
- our culpability in metaphysical structures of engagement
- Derrida’s version of rigor in critical theory
- Derrida’s treatment of Levi Strauss
- the limits of deconstruction
- the bricoleur vs engineer
- the relation between contingency and universality
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