Chris Doss wrote:
>Well, Heidegger and strutuaraliism certainly do
>intersect, and I think it's not an accident that
>post-Heideggerians like Derrida attacked Levi-Straus.
>But anyway phenomenology is an analysis of experience
>as lived by a person. It is an analysis of the
>first-person point of view. Talk about "societies" and
>so forth is meaningless to phenomenology, except
>insofar as it relates to the first person. Just as
>physics and chemistry are meaningless from the phen.
>point of view, except insofar as it relates to the
>first person experience. Heidegger is trying to
>describe the structure of human experience in general,
>regardless of whether the human in question is Karl
>Marx, me, Charles Brown, Adam Smith, Adolph Hitler,
>Stalin, Ghandi, my third-grade teacher, a
>third-century Roman, or a neanderthal. Basically he's
>trying to eludicate what it means to be a "first
>person," describing the world as it appears to an
>individual, or rather describing the general structure
>of the world as experienced by an individual.
>
Well, that's very useful, but it's not the whole story.
Joanna
>
>