Post Structuralism:
Whole vs. Individual systems
"In the study of language, the structural linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) suggested that meaning was to be found within the structure of a whole language rather than in the analysis of individual words. "
http://www.philosopher.org.uk/poststr.htm
Quote:
http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/Literary_Criticism/deconstruction/
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