French theory in America
By: edited by Sylvère Lotringer and Sande Cohen.
Contributors: Lotringer, Sylvère.; Cohen, Sande.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: Philosophy, French -- 20th century; France -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; United States -- Civilization -- French influences
Description: What does it mean to"do theory" in America? In what ways has "French Theory" changed American intellectual and artistic life? How different is it from what French intellectuals themselves conceived, and what does all this tell us about American intellectual life? Is "French Theory" still a significant force in America, raising conceptual questions not easily answered? In this volume of new work--including the French writers Julia Kristeva, Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard, and Gilled Delezue, as well as essays by Sylvere Lotringer and Sande Cohen, Mario Biagoli, Elie During, Chris Kraus, Alison Gingeras, and Kriss Ravetto, among others--French theorists assess the impact and reception of their work in America, and American-based critics account for their effects in different areas of cultural criticism and art over the last thirty years.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : A few theses on French theory in America / Sylvère Lotringer and Sande Cohen; title: Deconstructions : the im-possible / Jacques Derrida; title: Europhilia, europhobia / Julia Kristeva; title: For a political Roland Barthes / Françoise Gaillard; title: From radical incertitude, or thought as impostor / Jean Baudrillard; title: Sketching an intellectual itinerary / Gérard Genette; title: Jacques Lacan, or the erasure of history / Élisabeth Roudinesco; title: What is the creative act? / Gilles Deleuze; title: Marshall McLuhan, Canadian schizo-Jansenist and pseudo-Joycean precursor of and preparer for the dissemination of French theory in North America / Donald F. Theall; title: Doing theory / Sylvère Lotringer; title: Blackboxing in theory : Deleuze versus Deleuze / Elie During; title: Critical inquiry, October, and historicizing French theory / Sande Cohen; title: How French is it? / Andrea Loselle; title: Frenchifying film studies : projecting Lacan onto the feminist scene / Kriss Ravetto; title: Disappearing acts : the French theory effect in the art world / Alison M. Gingeras; title: From difference to blackboxing : French theory versus science studies' metaphysics of presence / Mario Biagioli; title: Research historians and French theory / Sande Cohen; title: Ecceity, smash and grab, the expanded I and moment / Chris Kraus; title: Sokal's new clothes (intermezzo) / Elie During.