Structuralism: how non-being shaped the modern world

If postmodernism is the answer, then what was the question? 📜Subscribe: | 💖Support us: 🧉Tip us a yerba mate: 💖Support on YouTube: 📣Follow us on Twitter: 🦣and on Mastodon: @t3essays 🇵🇱Kanał po polsku: ✉Get in touch: t3essays@ 🎬Structuralism by Tom Nicholas: In today’s crunchy, nutritious, theory-laden video, we discuss the basic problem that many people have with postmodernism and so on – namely, that it approaches the existence of things in a completely different way. The late 20th century shattered the view that was dominant for 25 centuries, since the philosopher Parmenides: that things simply exist. We follow Ferdinand de Saussure and Claude Levi-Strauss on their path from figuring out language to figuring out society to trying to figure out everything, how it finally failed, and why it was replaced by post-structuralism. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 3:08 I Being vs non-being: an easy victory 9:08 II Essentialism: things inside themselves 11:24 III The non-being of language 20:02 IV The non-being of everything 25:01 V The big question of structuralism 31:11 V The downfall of structuralism 35:30 VII What’s in it for us