Terror and Consensus : Vicissitudes of French Thought /

This volume of twelve essays focuses on two interrelated issues. First, it addresses the historical and cultural determinants that have given rise to what frequently has been described as "the French exception," the unusually conflictual French political process inherited from the revoluti...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Apostolides, Jean-Marie (Contribuidor), Augé, Marc (Contribuidor), Cassin, Barbara (Contribuidor), Gaillard, Françoise (Contribuidor), Godelier, Maurice (Contribuidor), Goux, Jean-Joseph (Contribuidor, Editor ), Lionnet, Françoise (Contribuidor), Lyotard, Jean-François (Contribuidor), Poster, Mark (Contribuidor), Saint-Amand, Pierre (Contribuidor), Suleiman, Susan Rubin (Contribuidor), Wood, Philip R. (Contribuidor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]
Temas:
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Parameters of an Ongoing Crisis
  • Speak, If You Are a Man, or The Transcendental Exclusion
  • Terror on the Run
  • Subversion and Consensus: Proletarians, Women, Artists
  • Situations of Current French Thought: The End of "The French Exception"?
  • The French Exception: End or Continuation?
  • The Terror of Consensus
  • "Democracy" and "Totalitarianism" in Contemporary French Thought: Neoliberalism, the Heidegger Scandal, and Ethics in Post-Structuralism
  • Postmodernity and the Politics of Multiculturalism: The Lyotard-Habermas Debate over Social Theory
  • Performative Universalism and Cultural Diversity: French Thought and American Contexts
  • Mission and Limits of the Enlightenment
  • Theater and Terror: Le jugement dernier des rois
  • Hostile Enlightenment
  • The Intellectual Sublime: Zola as Archetype of a Cultural Myth
  • Is the West the Universal Model for Humanity? The Baruya of New Guinea Between Change and Decay
  • Reference Matter
  • Notes
  • Index of Names

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