Title & Author:

French theory in America / edited by Sylvère Lotringer and Sande Cohen.

Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2001.

Description:

321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : A few theses on French theory in America / Sylvère Lotringer and Sande Cohen -- Deconstructions : the im-possible / Jacques Derrida -- Europhilia, europhobia / Julia Kristeva -- For a political Roland Barthes / Françoise Gaillard -- From radical incertitude, or thought as impostor / Jean Baudrillard -- Sketching an intellectual itinerary / Gérard Genette -- Jacques Lacan, or the erasure of history / Élisabeth Roudinesco -- What is the creative act? / Gilles Deleuze -- Marshall McLuhan, Canadian schizo-Jansenist and pseudo-Joycean precursor of and preparer for the dissemination of French theory in North America / Donald F. Theall -- Doing theory / Sylvère Lotringer -- Blackboxing in theory : Deleuze versus Deleuze / Elie During -- Critical inquiry, October, and historicizing French theory / Sande Cohen -- How French is it? / Andrea Loselle -- Frenchifying film studies : projecting Lacan onto the feminist scene / Kriss Ravetto -- Disappearing acts : the French theory effect in the art world / Alison M. Gingeras -- From difference to blackboxing : French theory versus science studies' metaphysics of presence / Mario Biagioli -- Research historians and French theory / Sande Cohen -- Ecceity, smash and grab, the expanded I and moment / Chris Kraus -- Sokal's new clothes (intermezzo) / Elie During.

Summary:

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.

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ISBN:

0415925363
9780415925365
0415925371 (pbk.)
9780415925372 (pbk.)

Subject:

Philosophy, French 20th century.
Philosophie française 20e siècle.
Civilization French influences
Intellectual life
Philosophy, French
Literaturtheorie
Philosophie
Soziologische Theorie
Einfluss
Intellectuelen.
Fransen.
Receptie.
France Intellectual life 20th century.
United States Civilization French influences.
France Vie intellectuelle 20e siècle.
États-Unis Civilisation Influence française.
France
United States
Frankreich
USA
Nordamerika

Form/genre:

Kongress New York (NY) 1997.

Added entries:

Lotringer, Sylvère.
Cohen, Sande.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 222126
Call No.: B2421 .F7 2001
Status: Available