Transparency in postwar France : a critical history of the present /

Transparency in postwar France : a critical history of the present /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Geroulanos, Stefanos, 1979- author.
Imprint:Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2017]
©2017
Description:1 online resource (xii, 495 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Cultural memory in the present
Cultural memory in the present.
Subject:
Philosophy, French -- 20th century.
Transparency (Philosophy)
Knowledge, Theory of.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Philosophy, French.
Transparency (Philosophy)
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11758663
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ISBN:9781503603417
1503603415
9781503604599
1503604594
9780804799744
0804799741
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Summary:This book argues against the widely celebrated utopia of ""transparency"" by showing, across a panorama of postwar French thought, how attempts to show the perils of transparency in politics, ethics, and knowledge led to major conceptual inventions, many of which we now take for granted.
Other form:Print version: Geroulanos, Stefanos, 1979- Transparency in postwar France. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2017 9780804799744
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the matter with transparency
  • Was transparency an optical problem? : a short history
  • France, year zero : perception and reality after the liberation
  • The world's opacity to consciousness : Sartre and Merleau-Ponty
  • The image of science and the limits of knowledge
  • Machines and the cogito
  • From the total man to the other : UNESCO, anti-colonialism, and the new humanism of French anthropology
  • What is social transparency? : a second short history
  • Between state and society, I : the police, the black market, and 'the gangster' after the libération
  • Between state and society, II : psychology, public health, and the rebellion of the inadaptés
  • Alienation, utopia, and Marxism after 1956
  • Mask, face, and other as avatars of selfhood : a third short history
  • The norm and the same
  • The third order, or the structural 'symbolic' as epistemological interface
  • Lévi-Strauss' world out of sync
  • The ethnographer, cinéma-vérité, and the disruption of the natural order : chronicle of a summer
  • Return to Rousseau : Lévi-Strauss, Starobinski, Derrida
  • Return to Descartes : 'the last tribunal of the cogito'
  • "Speak not of darkness, but of a somewhat blurred light" : Michel Foucault, modernity, and the distortion of knowledge
  • Cybernetic complexity : prehistory, biology, and Derrida's program for liberation
  • The present time and the agent of history before and after May 1968
  • The myth of the self-transparency of society : Claude Lefort and his circle
  • Nineteen eighty-four : information, the scrambled signs of the ideal, and the postmodern condition.

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