Structuralism
Structuralism is an intellectual or artistic movement that has shaped the ideas of many notable thinkers throughout history.
6 thinkers428 quotesTop field: Education
"Bourgeois norms are experienced as the evident laws of a natural order—the further the bourgeois class propagates its representations, the more naturalized they become."
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🇫🇷Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Philosophy
structuralism
1908–1961
"De Lubac discusses an atheism which means to suppress this searching, he says, “even including the problem as to what is responsible for the birth of God in human consciousness."
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🇺🇸Camille Paglia
Education
Structuralism
b. 1947
"The real butches are straight … dealing with and controlling men makes you stronger."
302 quotes
🇫🇷Claude Lévi-Strauss
Science
Structuralism
1908–2009
"One must be very naïve or dishonest to imagine that men choose their beliefs independently of their situation."
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🇫🇷Roland Barthes
semiotic literary criticism
Structuralism
1915–1980
"Bourgeois norms are experienced as the evident laws of a natural order—the further the bourgeois class propagates its representations, the more naturalized they become."
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🇫🇷Georges Bataille
Literature
Structuralism
1897–1962
"We can’t rely on anything. Except ourselves. Ludicrous responsibility devolves on us, overwhelms us. In every regard, right up the present, people always have relied on each other—or God."
41 quotes
🇺🇸Edward B. Titchener
Psychology
Structuralism
1867–1927
"Common sense is the very antipodes of science."
2 quotes
Notable Quotes
"Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist."
— Camille Paglia, b. 1947View →
"To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought...?"
— Roland Barthes, b. 1915View →
"Myth deprives the object of which it speaks of all history. In it, history evaporates."
— Roland Barthes, b. 1915View →
"By reducing any quality to quantity, myth economizes intelligence: it understands reality more cheaply."
— Roland Barthes, b. 1915View →
"The real butches are straight … dealing with and controlling men makes you stronger."
— Camille Paglia, b. 1947View →