History of Structuralism; The Rising Sign 1945 1966

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Summary: A critical account of the influential French theorists
Review: This book is the definitive critical history of the most influential intellectual movement in the late twentieth century. Dosse focuses on the personalities and the historical conditions which gave birth to the structuralist movement, but he also concisely explicates the ideas it produced without impoverishing its richness and variation. And it also has lots of cool pictures in both volumes (Julia Kristeva was a babe). I have found Dosse's book indespensable for grappling with the vagaries of French theory. I honestly don't know how I managed without it.