History of Structuralism: Volume 1: The Rising Sign, 1945-1966 Volume 8
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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. Fran ois 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. This first volume of his study, The Rising Sign, 1945-1966, cogently maps the dizzying array of personalities and ideas of the early structuralist movement, paving the way for later developments.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0816622418
ISBN13:9780816622412
Release Date:October 1998
Publisher:University of Minnesota Press
Length:488 Pages
Weight:1.45 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.9" x 9.0"
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
Great reading. It is certainly very illuminating to approach structuralism - the movement of synchronity & autonomous discourse - from a diachronic & contextual point of view. To me it was particularly interesting to understand the context in which Foucault emerged, how he used the structural paradigm brilliantly for his own purposes. If you add "Jacques Lacan" by Elisabeth Roudinesco, you get an excellent take on the (sometimes flamboyant, often narcissistic) characters and institutional battles of the French 20th century intellectual scene (minus Sartre, fortunately). This will help you a great deal when approaching particular fields or thinkers more systematically.
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