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  2. Fernand Braudel - Wikipedia

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    Fernand Paul Achille Braudel (French: [fɛʁnɑ̃ bʁodɛl]; 24 August 1902 – 27 November 1985) was a French historian.His scholarship focused on three main projects: The Mediterranean (1923–49, then 1949–66), Civilization and Capitalism (1955–79), and the unfinished Identity of France (1970–85).

  3. Structuralism - Wikipedia

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    Structuralism is an intellectual current and methodological approach, primarily in the social sciences, that interprets elements of human culture by way of their relationship to a broader system. [1] It works to uncover the structural patterns that underlie all the things that humans do , think , perceive , and feel .

  4. Structuralism (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    Structuralism is a theoretical paradigm emphasizing that elements of culture must be understood in terms of their relationship to a larger, overarching system or structure. – Alternately, as summarized by philosopher Simon Blackburn: Structuralism is the belief that phenomena of human life are not intelligible except through their interrelations.

  5. Theosophy and visual arts - Wikipedia

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    Theosophy takes art into Dan Brown territory. No serious student of art history wants to touch it. [205] Januszczak claimed also that Theosophy was "fraudulent" and "ridiculous," and that "one day, someone will write a big book on the remarkable influence of Theosophy on modern art" and "its nonsensical spell" on so many modern artists. [206]

  6. Post-structuralism - Wikipedia

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    Post-structuralism rejects the structuralist notion that the dominant word in a pair is dependent on its subservient counterpart, and instead argues that founding knowledge on either pure experience (phenomenology) or on systematic structures (structuralism) is impossible, [10] because history and culture actually condition the study of ...

  7. Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human ...

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    "Structure, sign, and play" discusses how philosophy and social science understand 'structures' abstractly. Derrida is dealing with structuralism, a type of analysis which understands individual elements of language and culture as embedded in larger structures.

  8. Longue durée - Wikipedia

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    The longue durée (French pronunciation: [lɔ̃ɡ dyʁe]; English: the long term) is the French Annales School approach to the study of history. [1] It gives priority to long-term historical structures over what François Simiand called histoire événementielle ("evental history", the short-term time-scale that is the domain of the chronicler and the journalist).

  9. Structuralism (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Structuralism is a 1949 approach to anthropology and the human sciences in general, derived from linguistics, that attempts to analyze a specific field as a complex system of interrelated parts. Structuralism may also refer to: Structuralism (architecture), movement in architecture and urban planning in the middle of the 20th century