The American politics of French theory : Derrida, Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault in translation / Jason Demers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Demers, Jason, 1979- author.

Series:

Cultural spaces

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translating and interpreting--Political aspects--United States.

Translating and interpreting.

Translating and interpreting--Philosophy.

Translating and interpreting--Political aspects.

United States.

Physical Description:

x, 218 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019].

Summary:

"Working from the premise that May '68 is a shorthand that delimits an intensive decade of global revolt, Jason Demers documents the cross-pollination of French philosophy, international activist movements, and American countercultures. From the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and George Jackson to the revolt at Columbia University, the 1968 Democratic National Convention, Woodstock, and the Weather Underground, Demers writes French theory into a constellation of American events and icons uncontained by national borders. More than a compelling new take on the history of theory, The American Politics of French Theory develops concepts gleaned from the work of Derrida, Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault, providing new tools for thinking about translation, theory, and politics. By recontextualizing "French theory" within a complex fabric of mass communication and global revolt, Demers demonstrates why it is politically potent and methodologically necessary to think of translation associatively."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: margins, rhizomes, relays, and conversation

Translating margins: Paris-Derrida-New York, 1968

Translating movement: going underground with Deleuze and Guattari

Prison liberation by association: Michel Foucault and the George Jackson Atlantic

In search of common ground: on semiotext(e) and Schizo-Culture

Disseminating foreign principles.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-206) and index.

ISBN:

1487504489

9781487504489

OCLC:

1065726962