Functionalism
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A French post-structuralist movement in [the 1970s] that argued that [philosophy] was a actually a [critique] of power.
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(in the arts) the doctrine that the design of an object should be determined solely by its function, rather than by aesthetic considerations, and that anything practically designed will be inherently beautiful.
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the principle that the most important thing about an object such as a building is its use rather than what it looks like
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