A Genealogy of Structuralism and Language

Les mots et les choses. Une archéologie des sciences humaines was published in 1966 when the controversies surrounding structuralism were heating up. It was a decisive contribution to the structuralist trend in the wider public and became a phenomenon to be taken into account, not only in the humanities and social sciences but also philosophically. Despite it being a large and inaccessible work on the scientific and philosophical history of Western societies since the Renaissance, it was also — to the yet unknown Foucault’s surprise — a huge success and had to be reprinted five times that year. 1 This success happened because the book contained a number of claims that were viewed as controversial at the time. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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• Anthropologie structurale

  Open Access•Claud Lévi-Strau, Claud Lévi-Strauss•Population•1958

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