Terror and consensus : vicissitudes of French thought /
Goux, Jean-Joseph,1943-
Wood, Philip R.
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,
1998.
"The papers assembled here comprise contributions to a conference entitled 'Terror and Consensus: the Cultural Singularity of French Thought?' held at Rice University in 1993, the bicentenary of the Great Terror of the French Revolution, and other contributions solicited subsequently"--Introd.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-217) and index.
Speak, if you are a man, or, The transcendental exclusion / Barbara Cassin -- Terror on the run / Jean-François Lyotard -- Subversion and consensus: proletarians, women, artists / Jean-Joseph Goux -- The French exception: end or continuation? / Marc Augé -- The terror of consensus / Françoise Gaillard -- "Democracy" and "totalitarianism" in contemporary French thought: neoliberalism, the Heidegger scandal, and ethics in post-structuralism / Philip R. Wood -- Postmodernity and the politics of multiculturalism: the Lyotard-Habermas debate over social theory / Mark Poster -- Performative universalism and cultural diversity: French thought and American contexts / Françoise Lionnet -- Theater and terror: Le jugement dernier des rois / Jean-Marie Apostolidès -- Hostile enlightenment / Pierre Saint-Amand -- The intellectual sublime: Zola as archetype of a cultural myth / Susan Rubin Suleiman -- Is the West the universal model for humanity? The Baruya of New Guinea between change and decay / Maurice Godelier.
Philosophy, French
Philosophy, French
Political science
Political science
Political science