The Partially Examined Life (Citizens): (Protected Content)
On Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics (1916) (Part I and Part II, Ch. 4), Claude Levi-Strauss’s “The Structural Study of Myth” (1955), and Jacques Derrida’s “Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences” (1966). What is language? What is the relation between language and reality? With guest C. Derick Varn. Learn more.
End song: “Slipped Into Words” by Mark Linsenmayer (1991), released on The MayTricks,