Title: Modernity and Postmodernism

Subject: Structuralism and Deconstruction

Date: 5,4,24

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Main lecture notes

Modernity-

18th century

Agricultural production

Marxsist approach

Means of production and relation between between all the means of production

Age of reason and age of science modernity

Rationality and faith

They wanted to prove God’s existence in a rational way

Impossible to accept metaphsical

Dogma

Kant struggling with science- philosophy defeated religions?

17-18-19 century philosophy vs science

Science won

In post modernism- there is no subjective reality even science was atacked

Human reason is the ultimate guide

Atatürk’s line

He meant modern science

anachronism

Power of human reason

Phsical existence

reasoning

Discovery of the unknown*

Dark parts?

Human fear of the unknown

For the modernist religions not different from mythologies

Torch - Reasoning means light

Intratextual part of the text- structure the form

Objectivity

Freud claimed man is irrational (like darwin) our irrational rules our lives

Our desires, our ambitions determine our lives

There is no good or evil but representations

Nietche father of post modernity

-Structuralim

Modern approach

French antropologist

We have nature and culture. Everything must be natural or cultural. Cultural is man made.

Man is natural man is civilized but women irrational, emotional so they are uncivilized.

Incest is a taboo even in tribal cultures. So it is universal so it should be natural but also cultural?

Moral code

Structuralist approach

Structure is universal even though setting, characters etc are differentiate.

All the myths are based on some rules -Morphology of Fairytale

Homecoming as a victorious hero is universal

Diachronic analysis*

Language is a symbiotic system?

Language must be analyzed

Saussrean linguistic signify signification

Saussre says we have signs. Word itself a sign. A Tree and a Horse

There is a natural signification between signify and signified. Plato etc

Relation between them is natural.

Mimetic theory

Does God exist or not? Signification (IS NOT ARBITRARY) ?

Problem of sexual identity of man? Man and Woman

Lacan followers says male and female. Manhood and womanhood is cultural. It is not natural

Arbitrary not biologhically

When something is cultural you don’t have to accept it.

Structures must be analyzed

Arbitrariness

Is language arbitrary? yep

Language is not natural he claims

Particular languages but universal faculty of language?

Is english universal? no

2 exception onomatephea and interjactions?

synronic approach?

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“I think therefore I am” thus becomes the only solid foundation upon which knowledge and a theory of knowledge can be built. For Descartes, the rational essence freed from supersition, human passions, and one’s often irrational imagination allows humankind to discover truth about physical world.

Through reason and science, all poverty, ignorance, and injustice would finally be banished.

Benjamin Franklin declares that he pulled himself up by his own bootstaps” overcoming poverty and ignorance throug education.

Self assured, self-conscious and self made all people possess an essential nature. It is humanity’s moral duty to investigate this nature contained within ourselves and also to investigate our environment through rational thinking and the methods of science so that we can learn and share truths of the universe.

Modernity’s core characteristics are as follow:

What is truth? How can truth be discovered? What is reality? Is there an objective reality on which we can all agree? If so, how can we best investigate this reality so that all humanity can understand the world in which we live and prosper from such knowledge? What is the masculine scientific rationality? and The feminine artistic intuition?

  1. Truth: Truth is generally considered to be the correspondence of a statement or belief with reality. In other words, a statement is considered true if it accurately describes the world as it is. However, what constitutes ‘truth’ can vary greatly depending on philosophical, cultural, or personal perspectives.