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ISBN10: 081664733X, ISBN13: 9780816647330, [publisher: University of Minnesota Press, Minnesota] Softcover Paperback. During the last three decades of the twentieth century, a disparate group of radical French thinkers achieved an improbable level of influence and fame in the United States. Compared by at least one journalist to the British rock'n' roll invasion, the arrival of works by Foucault, Derrida, Lyotard, Baudrillard, Deleuze, and Guattari on American shores in the late 1970s and 1980s caused a sensation. "A great story, full of twists and turns. . . . Careers made and ruined, departments torn apart, writing programs turned into sensitivity seminars, political witch hunts, public opprobrium, ignorant media attacks, the whole ball of wax. Read it and laugh or read it and weep. I can hardly wait for the movie." —Stanley Fish, "Think Again, New York Times" "In such a difficult genre, full of traps and obstacles, French Theory" is a success and a remarkable book in every respect: it is fair, balanced, and informed. I am sure this book will become the" reference on both sides of the Atlantic." —Jacques Derrida "The Atlantic Ocean has two sides, and so does French Theory. Reinvented in America and betrayed in its own country, it has become the most radical intellectual movement in the West with global reach, rewriting Marx in light of late capitalism. ...
ISBN10: 081664733X, ISBN13: 9780816647330, [publisher: University of Minnesota Press, Minnesota] Softcover Paperback. During the last three decades of the twentieth century, a disparate group of radical French thinkers achieved an improbable level of influence and fame in the United States. Compared by at least one journalist to the British rock'n' roll invasion, the arrival of works by Foucault, Derrida, Lyotard, Baudrillard, Deleuze, and Guattari on American shores in the late 1970s and 1980s caused a sensation. "A great story, full of twists and turns. . . . Careers made and ruined, departments torn apart, writing programs turned into sensitivity seminars, political witch hunts, public opprobrium, ignorant media attacks, the whole ball of wax. Read it and laugh or read it and weep. I can hardly wait for the movie." —Stanley Fish, "Think Again, New York Times" "In such a difficult genre, full of traps and obstacles, French Theory" is a success and a remarkable book in every respect: it is fair, balanced, and informed. I am sure this book will become the" reference on both sides of the Atlantic." —Jacques Derrida "The Atlantic Ocean has two sides, and so does French Theory. Reinvented in America and betrayed in its own country, it has become the most radical intellectual movement in the West with global reach, rewriting Marx in light of late capitalism. ...
Minneapolis, Minn. : |Bristol University of Minnesota Press 2008 Trade paperback New in new dust jacket.
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