History of Structuralism, Vol. 2: The Sign Sets 1967-Present (Contradictions of Modernity)

V. 1. The Rising Sign, 1945-1966 -- V. 2. The Sign Sets, 1967-present. François Dosse ; Translated By Deborah Glassman. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. The first comprehensive history of one of the most influential intellectual movements of the twentieth century.Claude Levi-Strauss, Roland Barthes, Jacques Lacan, Louis Althusser, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault -- the ideas of this group of French intellectuals who propounded structuralism and poststructuralism have had a profound impact on disciplines ranging from literary theory to sociology, from anthropology to philosophy, from history to psychoanalysis. In this long-awaited translation, History of Structuralism examines the thinkers who made up the movement, providing a fascinating elucidation of a central aspect of postwar intellectual history.Francois Dosse tells the stow of structuralism from its beginnings in postwar Paris, a city dominated by the towering figure of Jean-Paul Sartre. The work of Saussure became the point of departure for a group of younger scholars, and the outcome was not only the doom of Sartre as intellectual leader but the birth of a movement that would come to reconfigure French intellectual life and would eventually reverberate throughout the Western world.Dosse provides a readable, intelligible overall account, one that shows the interrelationship among the central currents of structuralism and situates them in context. Dosse illuminates the way developments in what are usually distinct fields came to exert such influence on each other, showing how the early structuralists paved the way for later developments and for recent discourses such as postmodernism. The cast of characters related by Dosse includes those mentioned above as well as Roman Jakobson, Julia Kristeva, Pierre Bourdieu, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Tzvetan Todorov, andmany others. Chapters are devoted to major figures, and Dosse has done extensive interviews with the major and minor figures of the movement, furnishing an intellectual history in which historical players look back at the period.This first comprehensive history of the structuralist movement is an essential guide to a major moment in the development of twentieth-century thought, one that provides a cogent map to a dizzying array of personalities and their ideas. It will be compelling reading for those interested in philosophy, literary theory, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, and psychoanalysis."Excellent.... Dosse reminds us that not only was structuralism an intellectual event of the sixties, it was also the cultural coup d'etat that both put an end to the reign of Sartre and existentialism and inaugurated the rise of the humanities". Le Figaro"Dosse's work is exceptional in its pursuit of an honest and relevant archaeology that not only clarifies the past but offers lessons for the future". Liberation Contents 10 Preface 14 Acknowledgments 16 Part I. First Fissures 18 1. Chomskyism—New Frontiers? 20 2. Derrida or Ultrastructuralism 34 3. Derridean Historicization and Its Erasure 49 4. Benveniste: The French Exception 59 5. Kristeva and Barthes Reborn 71 6. Durkheim Gets a Second Wind: Pierre Bourdieu 83 7. 1967–1968: Editorial Effervescence 93 8. Structuralism and/or Marxism 105 9. Media Success: A Criticism-fed Flame 116 Part II. May 1968 and Structuralism; or, The Misunderstanding 122 10. Nanterre-Madness 124 11. Jean-Paul Sartre's Revenge 129 12. Lacan: Structures Have Taken to the Streets! 139 13. Institutional Victory: The University Conquered 150 14. Vincennes: The Structuralist University 158 15. Journals: Still Going Strong 171 16. The Althusserian Grid: A Must 181 17. The Althusserian Grid: A Bust 196 Part III. Structuralism between Scientism, Ethics, and History 206 18. The Mirage of Formalization 208 19. From Explosive Literary Mourning to the Pleasure of the Text 217 20. Philosophy and Structure: The Figure of the Other 232 21. The Reconciliation of History and Structure 244 22. Foucault and the Deconstruction of History (I): The Archaeology of Knowledge 251 23. Foucault and the Deconstruction of History (II): Discipline and Punish 264 24. The Golden Age of New History 277 Part IV. The Decline 292 25. Lost Illusions (I): The Gulag Effect 294 26. Lost Illusions (II): Extenuated Scientism 301 27. Lost Illusions (III): The Return of Ethics 307 28. From Reproduction to Regulation: Heirs to Keynes and Althusser, and the Crisis 313 29. A Middle Path: The Habitus 326 30. Geography: A Latecomer Discovers Epistemology 337 31. The Subject; or, The Return of the Repressed 349 32. Michel Foucault: From Biopower to an Aesthetics of the Self 361 33. An Autonomous Subject 375 34. History Returns 389 35. The Master Thinkers Die 401 36. The Crisis of Universalist Models and Disciplinary Retrenchment 416 37. Structural Naturalism 422 38. Assimilating the Program 433 Part V. Time, Space, the Dialogic 450 39. Clio in Exile 452 40. A Topo-Logic 462 41. For a Dialogic 470 Appendix: List of Interviewees 478 Notes 484 Index 532 A 532 B 532 C 533 D 534 E 535 F 535 G 536 H 536 I 537 J 537 K 537 L 537 M 538 N 539 O 539 P 539 Q 540 R 540 S 540 T 541 U 541 V 541 W 542 X 542 Y 542 Z 542 Annotation Structuralism has had a profound impact on disciplines ranging from literary theory to sociology, from history to psychoanalysis. Francois Dosse tells the story of structuralism's beginnings in postwar Paris to its culmination as a movement that would reconfigure French intellectual life and reverberate throughout the Western world. This essential guide is a cogent map of the dizzying array of personalities and ideas involved in the movement The ideas of the French intellectuals who propounded structuralism and poststructuralism have had a profound impact on disciplines ranging from literary theory to sociology, from anthropology to philosophy, from history to psychoanalysis. A long-awaited translation, this two-volume set examines the thinkers who made up the movement, providing a fascinating elucidation of a central aspect of postwar intellectual history