When Did Structuralism Start?
When Did Structuralism Start? In fact, the basic idea of structuralism can be traced back at least as far as 1725, to the writings of Giambattista Vico, and in many ways owes a debt to the core continental tradition of rationalist philosophy that was advanced by René Descarte, Baruch Spinoza, Gottfried Leibniz, and Immanuel Kant.