The Limits of Structuralism

The Limits of Structuralism
Author: James McElvenny
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2023
Genre: History
ISBN: 0192849042

"Based around seven primary texts spanning 130 years, this volume explores the conceptual boundaries of structuralism [...]. The texts are made accessible to present-day English-speaking readers through translation and extensive critical notes; each text is also accompanied by a detailed introduction that places it in its intellectual and historical context and outlines the insights it contains"--Jacket.

Umberto Eco in His Own Words

Umberto Eco in His Own Words
Author: Torkild Thellefsen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2017-08-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1501507141

Hitherto, there has been no book that attempted to sum up the breadth of Umberto Eco’s work and it importance for the study of semiotics, communication and cognition. There have been anthologies and overviews of Eco’s work within Eco Studies; sometimes, works in semiotics have used aspects of Eco’s work. Yet, thus far, there has been no overview of the work of Eco in the breadth of semiotics. This volume is a contribution to both semiotics and Eco studies. The 40 scholars who participate in the volume come from a variety of disciplines but have all chosen to work with a favorite quotation from Eco that they find particularly illustrative of the issues that his work raises. Some of the scholars have worked exegetically placing the quotation within a tradition, others have determined the (epistemic) value of the quotation and offered a critique, while still others have seen the quotation as a starting point for conceptual developments within a field of application. However, each article within this volume points toward the relevance of Eco -- for contemporary studies concerning semiotics, communication and cognition.

Structuralism

Structuralism
Author: Jean Piaget
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 166
Release: 1970-12-03
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780465082384

Cultural Studies

Cultural Studies
Author: Jeff Lewis
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 457
Release: 2008-03-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1446204278

Praise for the first edition: "This is a great introduction and contribution to the subject. It is unusually wide-ranging, covering the historical development of cultural theory and deftly highlighting key problems that just won′t go away." - Matthew Hills, Cardiff University "To say that the scope of the book′s coverage is wide-ranging would be an under-statement. Few texts come to mind that have attempted such a thorough overview of the central tenets of cultural studies." - Stuart Allan, Bournemouth University This fully revised edition of the best selling introduction to cultural studies offers students an authoritative, comprehensive guide to cultural studies. Clearly written and accessibly organized the book provides a major resource for lecturers and students. Each chapter has been extensively revised and new material covers globalization, the post 9/11 world and the new language wars. The emphasis upon demonstrating the philosophical and sociological roots of cultural studies has been retained along with boxed entries on key concepts and issues. Particular attention is paid to demonstrating how cultural studies clarifies issues in media and communication studies, and there are chapters on the global mediasphere and new media cultures. This is a tried and tested book which has been widely used wherever cultural studies is taught. It is an indispensable undergraduate text and one that will appeal to postgraduates seeking a ′refresher′ which they can dip into.

The Limits of Meaning

The Limits of Meaning
Author: Matthew Eric Engelke
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2006
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781845451707

Too often, anthropological accounts of ritual leave readers with the impression that everything goes smoothly, that rituals are "meaningful events." But what happens when rituals fail, or when they seem "meaningless"? Drawing on research in the anthropology of Christianity from around the globe, the authors in this volume suggest that in order to analyze meaning productively, we need to consider its limits. This collection is a welcome new addition to the anthropology of religion, offering fresh debates on a classic topic and drawing attention to meaning in a way that other volumes have for key terms like "culture" and "fieldwork.

The Limits of Regulation

The Limits of Regulation
Author: Stavros Mavroudeas
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0857938649

'Whilst the regulation approach has gone beyond its peak of influence and has been diluted of much of its radical content, this outstanding critical appreciation of its strengths and weaknesses will prove an invaluable point of reference for all those engaged in the political economy of the national within the global economy.' – Ben Fine, University of London, UK This unique and original book offers a critical survey of the regulation approach, an influential theoretical school born in the 1970s and belonging to the neo-Marxist and radical political economy traditions. The author's persuasive argument is that regulation, in order to explain capitalist development, resorts to historicism and institutionalism and thereby adopts a 'middle-range' methodology. He contends that both its theoretical and methodological perspectives are currently unfit for this purpose. This novel critique of regulation will prove a challenging and stimulating read for academics, researchers and graduate students with an interest in heterodox economics, the history of economic thought, political economy, regional development and labour process theory.

Myth and the Limits of Reason

Myth and the Limits of Reason
Author: Phillip Stambovsky
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2021-11-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004495894

Traditionally understood as pre-critical, even pre-rational, mythical thought has in fact played a critical role in post-Enlightenment intellectual history. Modernists in philosophy and literature have used the depictive rationality of myth to disclose, in self-reflective ways, the limits of discursive sense-making in various domains of human experience. In so doing, they have effectively furthered, without resort to analytical abstractions, the epistemological critique of reason begun during the Enlightenment. Stambovsky illustrates four widely diverse examples of this critical form of mythical thinking in works by Kierkegaard, Miguel de Unamuno, Henry James, and Margaret Atwood. The selected texts focus respectively on religious, national-cultural, psychosocial, and psychobiological realms of experience. These illustrations follow an inquiry into why the very possibility of critical, mythically inventive (mythopoetic) reflection is unsatisfactorily explained by leading rationalist accounts of myth. It is with this problem in mind that Stambovsky begins his monograph with observations on the origins of rationalist and counter-rationalist conceptualizations of myth in the fragments of Xenophanes (the father of rationalist mythology) and in Plato's Phaedrus. Of pivotal import is the early rationalist discrimination of mythos from logos and its epistemological implications (the rationalist legacy) in the history of the idea of myth. Following his look at paradigmatic classical precedents, Stambovsky traces the influence of the rationalist legacy in the myth theory of Malinowski, Lévi-Strauss, Cassirer, Ricoeur, and Blumenberg. The aim is to reveal how this influence in different ways limits these theories as instruments for detecting and explaining the seminal critical and historical significance of modern mythopoeia. This study will be of particular interest to teachers and students of myth theory in departments of philosophy, religion, literature, and cultural anthropology.

Pierre Bourdieu

Pierre Bourdieu
Author: Richard Jenkins
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2002
Genre: Sociologists
ISBN: 9780415285278

Where Bourdieu's writings are complex and ambiguous, Jenkins is direct, concise and to the point. This book covers Bourdieu's contributions to theory and methodology plus substantive studies of education, social stratification and culture.

The Jurisprudence of Style

The Jurisprudence of Style
Author: Justin Desautels-Stein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2018-02-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107156653

Offers a structuralist critique of the relationship between pragmatism and liberalism in American legal thought.