Claude Lévi-Strauss : the father of structuralism -- Louis Althusser : Marxism and structuralism -- Henri Lefebvre : a Marxist against structuralism -- Paul Ricoeur : hermeneutics and structuralism -- Alain Touraine : structures without structuralism -- Jacques Lacan : structuralist psychoanalysis -- Roland Barthes : literary structuralism and erotics -- Michel Foucault : structuralism and structures of knowledge