French Theory In America

Author : Sylvere Lotringer,Sande Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136054143

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French Theory in America by Sylvere Lotringer,Sande Cohen Pdf

What does it mean to"do theory" in America? In what ways has "French Theory" changed American intellectual and artistic life? How different is it from what French intellectuals themselves conceived, and what does all this tell us about American intellectual life? Is "French Theory" still a significant force in America, raising conceptual questions not easily answered? In this volume of new work--including the French writers Julia Kristeva, Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard, and Gilled Delezue, as well as essays by Sylvere Lotringer and Sande Cohen, Mario Biagoli, Elie During, Chris Kraus, Alison Gingeras, and Kriss Ravetto, among others--French theorists assess the impact and reception of their work in America, and American-based critics account for their effects in different areas of cultural criticism and art over the last thirty years.

Author : François Cusset
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780816647323

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French Theory by François Cusset Pdf

Explores how the French theory of philosophy, which became popular during the last three decades of the twentieth century, spread to America and examines the critical practices that French theory inspired.

Author : Jason Demers
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487504489

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The American Politics of French Theory by Jason Demers Pdf

Working from the premise that May '68 is a shorthand that delimits an intensive decade of global revolt, Jason Demers documents the cross-pollination of French philosophy, international activist movements, and American countercultures. From the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and George Jackson to the revolt at Columbia University, the 1968 Democratic National Convention, Woodstock, and the Weather Underground, Demers writes French theory into a constellation of American events and icons uncontained by national borders. More than a compelling new take on the history of theory, The American Politics of French Theory develops concepts gleaned from the work of Derrida, Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault, providing new tools for thinking about translation, theory, and politics. By recontextualizing "French theory" within a complex fabric of mass communication and global revolt, Demers demonstrates why it is politically potent and methodologically necessary to think of translation associatively.

Author : Anaël Lejeune,Olivier Mignon,Raphaël Pirenne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 3943365379

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French Theory and American Art by Anaël Lejeune,Olivier Mignon,Raphaël Pirenne Pdf

Many postwar American artists were influenced by French philosophy, literary studies, and social sciences. Accordingly, a number of French authors gathered under the label "French Theory"--a name referring roughly to structuralism and post structuralism--has received sustained attention in the United States. As early as the early 1960s, this reception helped to shape both American artistic practice and the fate of French thought in a crucial way. At the turn of the twenty-first century, the wealth of works from the human sciences and philosophy in American culture became the subject of numerous studies. French Theory and American Art examines some of the main historical conditions of this reception. It considers significant texts, artists, authors, and events that were instrumental in the introduction of French thought into the artistic field of the United States. The relation between artistic creation and theoretical thought, between singular, inventive uses and creative misunderstandings of theory, constitutes the other major question of the present volume. Copublished with (SIC) Contributors Philip Armstrong, Victor Burgin, François Cusset, Larisa Dryansky, Benjamin Greenman, Rachel Haidu, Sylvère Lotringer, Stephen Melville, Laura Mulvey, Kassandra Nakas, Peter Osborne, Jean-Michel Rabaté, John Rajchman, Katia Schneller, Alexander Streitberger, Hilde Van Gelder, Erik Verhagen

Author : François Cusset
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781551524115

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The Inverted Gaze by François Cusset Pdf

François Cusset, author of the acclaimed book French Theory, investigates the queering of the French literary canon by American writers and scholars in this thought-provoking and free-minded journey across six centuries of literary classics and sexual polemics. Cusset presents the foundations and rationale for American queer theory, the field of study established in the 1990s and promulgated by writers and scholars such as Judith Butler, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Michael Warner (in the wake of Michel Foucault), which challenges a supposed "heteronormative" ideology in our culture. He provides an overview of their reinterpretation of the French literary canon from a queer perspective, then deliberately goes further, confronting that same canon with a lively form of general suspicion—seeking gender trouble and sexual ambiguities in the most unexpected corners of French literary classics, in which macho heroes turn out to be homosocial melancholics and the most seemingly submissive housewives are great vanguards of lesbian liberation. Cusset's survey includes medieval and Renaissance literature, works from the Age of Enlightenment, nineteenth-century avant-gardists such as Charles Baudelaire and Honoré de Balzac, and twentieth-century modernists such as Marcel Proust and Jean Genet. Bold in its themes and propositions, The Inverted Gaze (a translation of the book Queer Critics) is an extraordinary work about French literature and American queer politics by one of France's biggest intellectual stars. François Cusset is a professor of American studies at the University of Paris. He is the author of numerous books including French Theory (2008). David Homel is an award-winning translator and writer who lives in Montreal, Quebec.

Author : Sarah Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215375200

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The Visual World of French Theory by Sarah Wilson Pdf

This work focuses on the series of encounters between the most prominent French philosophers of the 1960s and 1970s and the artists of their times, most particularly the protagonists of the Narrative Figuration movement.

Author : Blake Stricklin
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781785277245

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American Paraliterature and Other Theories to Hijack Communication by Blake Stricklin Pdf

American Paraliterature examines the generative encounters of post-1968 French theory with the postwar American avant-garde. The book begins with an account of the 1975 Schizo-Culture conference that was organized by Semiotext(e) editor Sylvère Lotringer at Columbia University. The conference was an attempt to directly connect the American avant-garde with French theory. At the event, John Cage shared the stage with Deleuze and Foucault introduced William S. Burroughs. This schizo-connection presents a way to read the experimental methods of the American avant-garde (Burroughs, Cage, and Kathy Acker), and how their writing creates a counterprogram to the power that Foucault and Deleuze started to articulate in the 1970s.

Author : Oisin Keohane
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474431170

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Cosmo-nationalism by Oisin Keohane Pdf

Why do we assign nationalities to philosophies? Building on Jacques Derrida's unpublished seminars on philosophical nationalism, Oisín Keohane claims that national philosophies are a variant of some form of cosmo-nationalism: a strain of nationalism that uses, rather than opposes, ideas in cosmopolitanism to advance the aims of one nation.

Author : Richard G Smith
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748694310

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Jean Baudrillard by Richard G Smith Pdf

This new collection gathers 23 highly insightful yet previously difficult-to-find interviews with Baudrillard, ranging over topics as diverse as art, war, technology, globalisation, terrorism and the fate of humanity.

Author : Peter Starr
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804724458

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Logics of Failed Revolt by Peter Starr Pdf

Using the events of May '68 as a historical touchstone, this book examines the political ramifications of the literary, philosophical, and psychoanalytic work known as French theory.

Author : Michael S. Neiberg
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674258563

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When France Fell by Michael S. Neiberg Pdf

Shocked by the fall of France in 1940, panicked US leaders rushed to back the Vichy governmentÑa fateful decision that nearly destroyed the AngloÐAmerican alliance. According to US Secretary of War Henry Stimson, the Òmost shocking single eventÓ of World War II was not the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, but rather the fall of France in spring 1940. Michael Neiberg offers a dramatic history of the American responseÑa policy marked by panic and moral ineptitude, which placed the United States in league with fascism and nearly ruined the alliance with Britain. The successful Nazi invasion of France destabilized American plannersÕ strategic assumptions. At home, the result was huge increases in defense spending, the advent of peacetime military conscription, and domestic spying to weed out potential fifth columnists. Abroad, the United States decided to work with Vichy France despite its pro-Nazi tendencies. The USÐVichy partnership, intended to buy time and temper the flames of war in Europe, severely strained AngloÐAmerican relations. American leaders naively believed that they could woo men like Philippe PŽtain, preventing France from becoming a formal German ally. The British, however, understood that Vichy was subservient to Nazi Germany and instead supported resistance figures such as Charles de Gaulle. After the war, the choice to back Vichy tainted USÐFrench relations for decades. Our collective memory of World War II as a period of American strength overlooks the desperation and faulty decision making that drove US policy from 1940 to 1943. Tracing the key diplomatic and strategic moves of these formative years, When France Fell gives us a more nuanced and complete understanding of the war and of the global position the United States would occupy afterward.

Author : Lawrence D. Kritzman,Brian J. Reilly,M. B. DeBevoise
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0231107900

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The Columbia History of Twentieth-century French Thought by Lawrence D. Kritzman,Brian J. Reilly,M. B. DeBevoise Pdf

This valuable reference is an authoritative guide to 20th century French thought. It considers the intellectual figures, movements and publications that helped define fields as diverse as history, psychoanalysis, film, philosophy, and economics.

Author : David French
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781250201980

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Divided We Fall by David French Pdf

David French warns of the potential dangers to the country—and the world—if we don’t summon the courage to reconcile our political differences. Two decades into the 21st Century, the U.S. is less united than at any time in our history since the Civil War. We are more diverse in our beliefs and culture than ever before. But red and blue states, secular and religious groups, liberal and conservative idealists, and Republican and Democratic representatives all have one thing in common: each believes their distinct cultures and liberties are being threatened by an escalating violent opposition. This polarized tribalism, espoused by the loudest, angriest fringe extremists on both the left and the right, dismisses dialogue as appeasement; if left unchecked, it could very well lead to secession. An engaging mix of cutting edge research and fair-minded analysis, Divided We Fall is an unblinking look at the true dimensions and dangers of this widening ideological gap, and what could happen if we don't take steps toward bridging it. French reveals chilling, plausible scenarios of how the United States could fracture into regions that will not only weaken the country but destabilize the world. But our future is not written in stone. By implementing James Madison’s vision of pluralism—that all people have the right to form communities representing their personal values—we can prevent oppressive factions from seizing absolute power and instead maintain everyone’s beliefs and identities across all fifty states. Reestablishing national unity will require the bravery to commit ourselves to embracing qualities of kindness, decency, and grace towards those we disagree with ideologically. French calls on all of us to demonstrate true tolerance so we can heal the American divide. If we want to remain united, we must learn to stand together again.

Author : Friedrich von Gentz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1800
Category : France
ISBN : PRNC:32101064004300

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The Origin and Principles of the American Revolution, Compared with the Origin and Principles of the French Revolution by Friedrich von Gentz Pdf

Author : Robert Parkin,Anne de Sales
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781845458430

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Out of the Study and Into the Field by Robert Parkin,Anne de Sales Pdf

Outside France, French anthropology is conventionally seen as being dominated by grand theory produced by writers who have done little or no fieldwork themselves, and who may not even count as anthropologists in terms of the institutional structures of French academia. This applies to figures from Durkheim to Derrida, Mauss to Foucault, though there are partial exceptions, such as Lévi-Strauss and Bourdieu. It has led to a contrast being made, especially perhaps in the Anglo-Saxon world, between French theory relying on rational inference, and British empiricism based on induction and generally skeptical of theory. While there are contrasts between the two traditions, this is essentially a false view. It is this aspect of French anthropology that this collection addresses, in the belief that the neglect of many of these figures outside France is seriously distorting our view of the French tradition of anthropology overall. At the same time, the collection will provide a positive view of the French tradition of ethnography, stressing its combination of technical competence and the sympathies of its practitioners for its various ethnographic subjects.