History of Structuralism

The first comprehensive history of one of the most influential intellectual movements of the twentieth century.

Structuralism has had a profound impact on disciplines ranging from literary theory to sociology, from anthropology to philosophy, from history to psychoanalysis. François Dosse tells the story of structuralism from its beginnings in postwar Paris to its culmination as a movement that would reconfigure French intellectual life and reverberate throughout the Western world. History of Structuralism is an essential guide to the dizzying array of personalities and ideas involved in the movement. The Sign Sets, 1967–Present, thesecond volume of Dosse’s comprehensive study, examines structuralist theorists and structuralism’s eventual decline.