Terror and consensus : vicissitudes of French thought / edited by Jean-Joseph Goux and Philip R. Wood.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goux, Jean-Joseph, 1943-

Wood, Philip R., 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

France--Intellectual life--19th century--Congresses.

France.

Intellectual life.

France--Intellectual life--20th century--Congresses.

Philosophy, French--19th century--Congresses.

Philosophy, French.

Philosophy, French--20th century--Congresses.

Political science--France--History--19th century--Congresses.

Political science.

History.

Political science--Philosophy--Congresses.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science--France--History--20th century--Congresses.

France--Politics and government--1789---Congresses.

Politics and government.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xi, 222 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1998.

Summary:

" It is the singular virtue of this superb collection that it refuses to dismiss the terms ' terror' and ' consensus' as simple rhetorical posturing, using them instead to dig deep into the debates that structure the current Franco-American critical scene." - Peter Starr, University of Southern California

Contents:

Speak, if you are a man, or, The transcendental exclusion / Barbara Cassin

Terror on the run / Jean-François Lyotard

Subversion and consensus: proletarians, women, artists / Jean-Joseph Goux

The French exception: end or continuation? / Marc Augé

The terror of consensus / Françoise Gaillard

"Democracy" and "totalitarianism" in contemporary French thought: neoliberalism, the Heidegger scandal, and ethics in post-structuralism / Philip R. Wood

Postmodernity and the politics of multiculturalism: the Lyotard-Habermas debate over social theory / Mark Poster

Performative universalism and cultural diversity: French thought and American contexts / Françoise Lionnet

Theater and terror: Le jugement dernier des rois / Jean-Marie Apostolidès

Hostile enlightenment / Pierre Saint-Amand

The intellectual sublime: Zola as archetype of a cultural myth / Susan Rubin Suleiman

Is the West the universal model for humanity? The Baruya of New Guinea between change and decay / Maurice Godelier.

Notes:

"The papers assembled here comprise contributions to a conference entitled 'Terror and Consensus: the Cultural Singularity of French Thought?' held at Rice University in 1993, the bicentenary of the Great Terror of the French Revolution, and other contributions solicited subsequently"--Introd.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-217) and index.

ISBN:

0804729697

0804729700

OCLC:

37813575