Introduction; Part 1 The Superstructuralist way of thinking; pre1 Preliminaries; Chapter 1 Saussure and the concept of ‘langue’; Chapter 2 From Durkheim to Lévi-Strauss; Chapter 3 Lacan's Freud; Chapter 4 Althusser's Marx; Chapter 5 Barthes and Semiotics; Part 2 Superstructuralism becomes philosophical; pre2 Preliminaries; Chapter 6 Metaphysical philosophy; Chapter 7 More Structural Linguistics; Chapter 8 Althusser and science; Chapter 9 Foucault as archaeologist; Part 3 Post-Structuralist philosophy; pre3 Preliminaries; Chapter 10 Derrida and language as Writing; Chapter 11 Derrida's general theory of Writing; Chapter 12 Foucault as genealogist; Chapter 13 More post-Structuralists; Conclusion;