Logics of Failed Revolt: French Theory After May '68 - Softcover

Starr, Peter

 
9780804724463: Logics of Failed Revolt: French Theory After May '68
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0804724466 ISBN 13: 9780804724463
Verlag: Stanford University Press, 1995

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In May 1968 the French nation was shaken to its foundations by a series of student protests that rapidly escalated into a general strike.Yet the immediate upshot of the May events was a massive electoral victory for General de Gaulle and for the constitution of 1958. Logics of Failed Revolt uses the events of May '68 as a historical touchstone for examining the political ramifications for that body of literary, philosophical, and psychoanalytic work known as French theory. It explores the period's central influence within theoretical discourse, tracing the development of 'explanations' for the necessary failure of established modes of revolutionary action and the widespread notion that politics was now a dead end. The author examines the specifically cultural politics operative in the texts of Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva, Helene Cixous and Jacques Lacan.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Peter Starr is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature, and Chair of the Program in Comparative Literature, at the University of Southern California.

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It is important and timely in the post-Cold War retreat of politics to have a historical assessment of how those politics, as well as certain stances inherited from the French Revolution ... were the original context around what we call theory today. Juliet Flower MacCannell, University of California, Irvine

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Verlag
Stanford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0804724466
ISBN 13 
9780804724463
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284
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