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This clear and authoritative study provides a critical evaluation of the structuralist move¬ment, concentrating on its roots in the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss. The discus¬sion of Levi-Strauss's work as a whole places his anthropological theories in their philosophical framework, and compares his theory and philosophy with contemporary developments in anthropology, linguistics and philosophy.
Looking at the connection between structuralism and phenomenology and neo-positivism, the book assesses the relation between Levi-Strauss's work and that of Lacan, Foucault, Althusser and Sartre.
First published in 1982 by Harvester (UK) and Barnes & Noble (US).