As with any cultural movement, the influences and developments are complex. Other linguists besides Saussure were important. [Roman Jakobson]?, in particular, worked on specifically literary problems long before structuralism became a general trend. But for a description of structuralist principles, Levi-Strauss is a good enough representative of the approach; trained in both philosophy and social science, he states his views methodically. Also, the other major figures in structuralism have written a good deal of work in which other influences dominate. Both [Roland Barthes]? and [Michel Foucault]? have been called both structuralists and post-structuralists (see post-structuralism; [Louis Althusser]?'s chief concern was to enlarge Marxist theory.
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