Structuralism: The Art of the Intelligible (Contemporary Studies in Philosophy and Human Sciences)

Structuralism: The Art of the Intelligible (Contemporary Studies in Philosophy and Human Sciences) by Caws, Peter. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780391036864.

Here is a nondogmatic and highly detailed commentary on, and analysis of, structuralism as philosophical movement and theory of language, society and systems. Complemented by phenomenology on the one hand, and by materialism on the other, Structuralism is capable of providing a world view that reconciles old conflicts between nature and society, objective and subjective, individual and group. This reissue of Structuralism includes a new foreword where Peter Caws clarifies one of the books central positions, fills in some lacunae, and addresses briefly two current topics: the nature and role of subjectivity and the status of theory in the human sciences.