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.

Cultural Spaces

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Translating and interpreting.

Translating and interpreting--Philosophy.

United States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 pages).

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Connecting French thinkers to the American sixties, The American Politics of French Theory demonstrates why, in an era of mass communication and global revolt, it is politically potent and methodologically necessary to think of translation not as an act of substitution, but as a web of associations.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Margins, Rhizomes, Relays, and Conversation

Thinking Translation Associatively; 1 Translating Margins: Paris-Derrida-New York, 1968; 2 Translating Movement: Going Underground with Deleuze and Guattari; I. Paris X New York with Jean-Jacques Lebel; II. For the Movement of Columbia (from the Movement in Columbia); III. Becoming Allies. Becoming Women's LibeRATion; 3 Prison Liberation by Association: Michel Foucault and the George Jackson Atlantic

4 In Search of Common Ground: On Semiotext(e) and Schizo-CultureConclusion: Disseminating Foreign Principles; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

1-4875-3027-7

1-4875-3026-9

OCLC:

1083690905