History of Structuralism, Volume 1

Part I. The Fifties: The Epic Epoch

• The Eclipse of a Star: Jean-Paul Sartre
• The Birth of a Hero: Claude Lévi Strauss
• Where Nature and Culture Meet: Incest
• Ask for the Program: The Mauss
• Georges Dumézil: An Independent
• The Phenomenological Bridge
• The Sassurean Break
• Roman Jakobson: The Man Who Could Do Everything
• A Pilot Science Without a Plane: Linguistics
• At Alexandria's Gates
• The Mother Figure of Structuralism: Roland Barthes
• An Epistemic Exigency
• A Rebel Named Jaques Lacan
• Rome calls (1953): The Return to Freud
• The Unconscious: A Symbolic Universe
• Real/Symbolic/Imaginary (RSI): The Heresy
• The Call of the Tropics
• Reason Raves: Michel Foucault's work
• Marxism in Crisis: A Thaw or the Deep Freeze Again?
• The French Scool of Economics Takes a Structural Path
• Get a Load of that Structure!

  Part II. The Sixties: 1963 - 1966, La Belle Époque

• Contesting the Sorbonne: The Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns
• 1964: The Semiological Adventure Makes a Breakthrough
• The Golden Age of Formal Thinking
• Great Confrontations
• Signifying Chains
• Mythology's Earth is Round
• Africa: The Continental Divide of Structuralism
• Reviews
• Ulm or Saint-Cloud: Althusser or Touki?
• The Althusserian explosion
• Marxism's Second Wind
• 1966: Annum mirable (I): A Watershed Year for Structuralism
• 1966: Annum mirabile (II): Foucault Sells Like Hot Cakes
• 1966: Annum mirabile (III): Julia Comes to Paris

  Part III. A Hexagonal Fever

• The Postmodern Hour Sounds
• Nietzschean-Heideggerian Roots
• Growing Pains

  Volume 2 Contents