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Michel Foucault, Claude Levi-Strauss, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Louis Althusser, Jacques Lacan - the ideas of this group of French intellectuals, who propounded structuralism and poststructuralism, have had reverberations in disciplines ranging from literary theory to sociology, from anthropology to philosophy, from history to psychoanalysis. This volume examines the thinkers who made up the movement, providing an elucidation of a central aspect of post-war intellectual history. Dosse tells the story of structuralism from its beginnings in post-war Paris, a city dominated by the towering figure of Jean-Paul Sartre. The work of de Saussure became the point of departure for a group of younger scholars and the outcome was not only the doom of Sartre as intellectural leader but the birth of a movement that would come to reconfigure French intellectual life and, eventually, the intellectual life of the western world. Dosse provides an 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 profound influence on each other, showing how the early structuralists paved the way for later developments and for contemporary discourses like postmodernism. This history of the structuralist movement is a guide to a major moment in the development of 20th-century thought, one that provides a map to an array of personalities and their ideas.