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Society & Reason

Bricolage: Natural Epistemology

D.E. Tarkington picks up ways of gaining truth, with inspiration from Deleuze, Guattari, and other continentals.

“Bricolage: construction (as of a sculpture or a structure of ideas) achieved by using whatever comes to hand; also: something constructed in this way.” – from the Merriam Webster Dictionary

“Throughout my description of the bricoleur, the figure of the artist is never far away.” Claude Levi-Strauss

The term ‘bricolage’ was first bought to popularity in the early 1960s by Claude Levi-Strauss in his book The Savage Mind. Since then it has found application in many fields from the arts to the social sciences, architecture, and, of course, philosophy. This is probably due to many thinkers, especially creative ones, seeing something of themselves, or rather their working methods, in the concept.

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