French intellectual nobility : institutional and symbolic transformations in the post-Sartrian era / by Niilo Kauppi. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kauppi, Niilo.

Series:

SUNY series in the sociology of culture

SUNY series in the sociology of culture French intellectual nobility

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, French--20th century.

Philosophy, French.

French literature--20th century.

French literature.

France--Intellectual life--20th century.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 204 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

French thinkers like Roland Barthes, Pierre Bourdieu, A.J. Greimas, Michel Foucault, and Claude Levi-Strauss created the "structuralist" and "poststructuralist" movements. They succeeded Sartrian existentialism and formed a new aristocracy of culture. French Intellectual Nobility is the first study to examine the conditions for the creation of these movements. Through case studies in cultural history, sociology, semiology, and literature, the book discusses the processes that enabled the French intellectual nobility to reinvent itself. By developing a historical and comparative approach, Kauppi analyzes the challenges that an intellectual generation faced, and he contributes to a context-sensitive analysis of culture and power.

Contents:

pt. I. The French Intellectual Habitus and Literary Culture. Ch. 1. The Ancien Regime: French Literary Culture. Ch. 2. The Nouveau Regime: The Weight of Past Deeds

pt. II. The Rise of Structural Constructivism and Semiology: The Academic Avant-Garde. Ch. 3. Scientific Practice and Epistemological A priori: Durkheim, Mauss, Levi-Strauss, Bourdieu. Ch. 4. The Uses of the "Economy" in Structural Constructivism. Ch. 5. Semiology and the Dynamics of the Intermediate Space. Ch. 6. On Scientific Style: The Effects of Two Cultures

pt. III. Iconoclasm and Parody: The Literary Avant-Garde Against Sartre. Ch. 7. System of Succession and System of Coronation. Ch. 8. The Conditions of Possibility of the New Avant-Garde: The Case of Tel Quel

Epilogue: The Emergence of a Tripolar Structure.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-194) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-4384-0851-X

0-585-04308-6