Structuralist Assumptions and the Philosophy of Man

FAIN: FB-11882-73

George B. Oliver
Hobart and William Smith Colleges (Geneva, NY 14456-3301)

To examine the origins of structuralsim in the work of Saussure, Trobetzkoy and Jakobson: study its fundamental elaboration in the anthropological investigations of Levi-Strauss in order to uncover the ultimate philosophical significance of structuralist methods and provide an assessment of their function within philosophy and within humanistic learning generally.