Francois Dosse
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A critical account of the influential French theorists 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book is the definitive critical history of the most influential intellectual movement in the late twentieth century. Dosse focuses on the personalities and the historical conditions which gave birth to the structuralist movement, but he also concisely explicates the ideas it produced without impoverishing its richness and variation. And it also has lots of cool pictures in both volumes (Julia Kristeva was a babe). I have found Dosse's book indespensable for grappling with the vagaries of French theory. I honestly don't know how I managed without it.
Recommended 5 out of 5 stars.
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Great reading. It is certainly very illuminating to approach structuralism - the movement of synchronity & autonomous discourse - from a diachronic & contextual point of view. To me it was particularly interesting to understand the context in which Foucault emerged, how he used the structural paradigm brilliantly for his own purposes.
If you add "Jacques Lacan" by Elisabeth Roudinesco, you get an excellent take on the (sometimes flamboyant, often narcissistic) characters and institutional battles of the French 20th century intellectual scene (minus Sartre, fortunately). This will help you a great deal when approaching particular fields or thinkers more systematically.
