Deconstruction: Interlude before Act Two

That should do it for Deconstruction for the moment. We need to take break before we start Act Two (but not too long a break). In Act Two we will need to learn what is at stake in the conflict we have established in Act One between protagonist (Derrida) and antagonist (Lévi-Strauss)  We need to see why much more is at stake, than a professional show-down between two men, young punk vs old guard, an intellectual game, played at the highest stakes within their discipline, at the height of the 1960s, when all of that revolutionary change had its greatest momentum. We will learn, although we will not great fully grasp perhaps, why the entire course of civilization is at stake, and how, after all was said and done, nothing was ever the same again, and nothing has been the same since, in a very profound way.

To do that, we need that Structuralism is, and how it rose from cream of the intellectual currents of Modernity during the height of rationality in the Twentieth Century, and in the wake of the devastating Apocalypse wars. From that era came a great Peace and Prosperity, and the mind of man flourished, and went out into space, and understood in the Universe on a level of details that previous centuries could not have imagined. It was the last great flourishing of Philosophy in the Western Tradition, perhaps, which was centered in France, the nation that above all others had led the West into Rationality as a guide to understanding all things.

Of course we will also learn more about the love story between Derrida and Marguerite, and more about the Trickster Foucault, whose presence hovers over the story, if you will.