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

He also talks about how human sciences like ethnology can only be called a science because of decentring of the concept of science, which has always been structured to be that of what is known today as pure sciences like chemistry and physics, thereby making discourse on ethnology possible as a systematic study.  Even then, there is struggle and repression in attempting to define what that concept is, since it requires the ‘destruction of the history of metaphysics’.  

 

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