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Ep 315: Arshia Sattar and the Complex Search for Dharma

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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What Does Structuralism Mean?

When a man like Walmiki writes something, you're fine with it. But because the text is called Valmiki Ramana, no, not Nani Ramana. Structuralism allows you to see invariant and variant ways in which a story or an episode is put together. Now again, compared to what scientists do and, you know, medical research or not, who cares about structuralism? Some of us do. I think structuralism also gives us a way to consider how we think, how our own ideas are formed,. How our own prejudices are formed. And that I think is useful. If you choose to use it in that way, I find very fulfilling because

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