Why there is no poststructuralism in France : the making of an intellectural generation / Johannes Angermuller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Angermuller, Johannes, author.

Series:

Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Philosophy--France.

Philosophy.

Poststructuralism--France.

Poststructuralism.

Structuralism--History.

Structuralism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (144 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; Oxford ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.

Summary:

"French thinkers such as Foucault and Derrida are often labelled as representatives of 'poststructuralism.'Yet such an intellectual movement is unknown in France, where these theorists were never perceived as an intellectual group or movement. By tracing the evolution of the French intellectual field after the war, this monograph places Theory in the social and historical contexts of its reception. It thus accounts for a particularly productive moment in French intellectual life which continues to inform the theoretical imaginary of our time."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Preface

1 Introduction: the intellectual field in France

1.1 'Poststructuralism' - an international misunderstanding?

1.2 Structuralism and post-structuralism in intellectual sociology of intellectuals

2. Structuralism versus post-structuralism. The birth of an intellectual generation

2.1 The transformations of Theory. From structuralism to 'poststructuralism'

2.2 Why there is no poststructuralism in France. Foucault, Derrida & Co. in the French intellectual field

2.2.1 Theoretical lines of conflict. Structuralists and ex-, non- and anti-structuralists

2.2.2 The arena of political conflict: the Communist Party and '68

2.2.3 Schools, clans, networks

2.2.4 Disciplinary cleavages between the human sciences and philosophy

2.2.5 Alternative education routes: elite academics versus colorful résumés

2.2.6 Peripheral institutions against the academic center

3 Rise and decline of the structuralist generation

3.1 From modernity to postmodernity: the intellectual field since the Enlightenment

3.2 The boom of the human sciences in the 1960s and 1970s

3.3 The formation of the structuralist generation

3.4 The neoliberal turn of the 1980s

4 From Theory in France to French Theory: the making of 'poststructuralism' in the post-national university

5 The Moment of Theory: the Social After Society

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

A French version of Chapters 1-4 has been published in Le Champ de la Théorie: Essor et déclin du structuralisme en France, Angermuller, Johannes (Paris: Hermann, 2013).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474226332

1474226337

9781474226318

1474226310

OCLC:

944225632