Lotringer / Cohen French Theory in America

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-136-05414-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lotringer, Sylvere

Cohen, Sande

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: A Few Theses on French Theory in America, Sylvere Lotringer
& Sande Cohen
Part One: Some Views from France
1. Deconstructions: The Im-possible, Jacques Derrida
2. For a Political Roland Barthes, Francoise Gaillard
3. Europhilia, Europhobia, Julia Kristeva
4. From Radical Incertitude, or Thought as Imposter, Jean Baudrillard
5. Sketch of an Intellectual Itinerary, Gerard Genette
6. Jacques Lacan or The Erasure of History, Elisabeth Roudinesco
7. What is the Creative Act?, Giles Deleuze
Part Two: French Theory in America
8. Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Schizo-Jansenist and Psuedo-Joycean, Donald F. Thall
9. Doing Theory, Sylvere Lotringer
10. Blackboxing in Theory, Elie During
11. Critical Inquiry, October,
and Historicizing French Theory, Sande Cohen
12. How French Is It?, Andrea Loselle
13. Frenchifying Film Studies, Kriss Ravetto
14. Disappearing Acts, Alison Gingeras
15. From Difference to Blackboxing, Mario Biagioli
Appendices
16. Research Historians and French Theory, Sande Cohen
17. Sokal's New Clothes (Intermezzo), Elie During
18. Ecceity, Smash & Grab, The Expanded I and Moment, Chris Krauss

Über Autor(innen)

Sylvere Lotringer is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and editor and publisher of Semiotext(e). Sande Cohen is Professor in the School of Critical Studies at California Institute of the Arts.