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

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Geroulanos, Stefanos, 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2017]
Colección:Cultural memory in the present.
Temas:
1900-1999
Philosophy, French > 20th century.
Transparency (Philosophy)
Knowledge, Theory of.
Philosophie française > 20e siècle.
Théorie de la connaissance.
epistemology.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
Philosophy, French.
Transparenz
Politik
Frankreich
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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