Which major post-war intellectual movement was driven by Jakobson's work?
Cultural Materialism
Post-functionalism
Structuralism
Post-Modernism
Answer
Structuralism was a major post-war intellectual movement that was driven by the work of the Russian linguist Roman Jakobson. Structuralism is based on the idea that all human languages share a common underlying structure, and that this structure can be used to understand the way that human beings think and communicate.
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