Most of my life I've been very, very unintestered in philosphy but I've recently developped a curiosity for some philosophical concepts like "structuralism" and I'm a bit curious about what the fuck type of political philosphy the Greeks developped after a friend told me they were reading Aristotle for their poli-sci class. What should I read? No self-help books please and thank you.
Oh the concept of structure? That's easy!
1. There must be at least two heterogeneous series, one of which is defined as the signifier and the other as the signified. 2. Each of these series is made up of terms that exist only through their relationship with one another. 3. two heterogeneous series [converging] toward a paradoxical element, which is their 'differentiator,' (from Guattari's essay *Machine and Structure*)What is there not to understand?
No but being serious you should browse around https://plato.stanford.edu/ (aka the SEP) and see what interests you. It's got a bit of an analytic focus, but it is an amazing source nonetheless.
#1 and #2 are Straight out of de Saussure, he makes it very simple. Highly recommend.
The quote specifically comes Guattari paraphrasing Deleuze's Difference and Repetition. Saussure makes it seem simple, but there is a reason so much ink has been spilled over this. Fascinating stuff really.