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Structuralism constituted an intellectual revolution in the 1960s and 1970s and radically transformed the way philosophy

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From Prague to Paris keyword-russia and assesses the impact ofFrom Prague to Paris is above all a critique of French structuralism. But it is also an exercise in the wider history of ideas, showing that structuralism had already matured significantly prior to its adoption in France. Far from being a methodological high road, the route from Prague in the 1930s to Paris in the 1960s was complicated by various ideological biases. Merquior argues that Parisian structuralism was notably formalist, and that this was