From Bataille to Badiou : Lignes, the preservation of radical French thought, 1987-2017 /
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Author / Creator: | May, Adrian, author. |
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Imprint: | Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2018. ©2018 |
Description: | vi, 314 pages ; 24 cm |
Language: | English |
Series: | Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 54 Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 54. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11929385 |
Varying Form of Title: | Lignes, the preservation of radical French thought, 1987-2017 |
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ISBN: | 1786940434 9781786940438 |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-301) and index. |
Summary: | "An exhaustive reading of the significant yet understudied intellectual review Lignes, from 1987 to 2017, to demonstrate how it has managed to preserve and develop the legacy of French radical thought often referred to as 'French Theory' or 'la pensée 68'. Whilst many studies on intellectual reviews from the 1930s to the 1980s exist, this book crucially illuminates the shifting intellectual and political culture of France since the 1980s, filling a major gap in contemporary debates on the continued relevance of French intellectuals. This book provides a strong counter-narrative to the received account that, after the anti-totalitarian 'liberal moment' of the late 1970s, Marxism and structuralism were completely banished from the French intellectual sphere. Through the review's pages, a novel cultural history of France emerges as intellectuals respond to pressing contemporary issues, such as the fall of Communism, the European migrant crisis and rising nationalist tensions, the globalisation of financial capitalism and the 2008 economic crisis, scandals surrounding paedophilia and the return of religious thought to France, as well as debates on literature and the political value of art"--Page 4 of cover. |
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