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Introduction 2003: Are you History? Jean-Michel Rabaté. <p>Introduction to the second edition: John Sturrock.</p> <p>Language.</p> <p>Social Sciences.</p> <p>Semiotics.</p> <p>Literature.</p> <p>Post-Structuralism.</p> <p>Conclusion.</p> <p>Further Reading.</p> <p>Notes.</p> <p>Index.</p>

<b>John Sturrock </b>is a literary journalist, sometime deputy editor of the <i>Times Literary Supplement</i>, and consulting editor on the <i>London Review of Books</i>. He has written widely on French literature, and is an accomplished translator.

John Sturrock’s classic explication of Structuralism represents the most succinct and balanced survey available of a major critical movement associated with the thought of such key figures as Lévi-Strauss, Foucault, Barthes, Lacan and Althusser. Originally celebrated for the way it negotiated a reasoned way between what were extremely impassioned factions of evangelists and their opponents, the book still offers the best and most readily accessible account of the subject. <br /> <p> As critics now prove to be increasingly eager to reappraise Structuralism, this edition, with a new introduction by the leading contemporary French theorist, Jean-Michel Rabaté, could not be more timely or convenient for the student of critical or literary theory.</p>

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