- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (April 25 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0415925371
- ISBN-13: 978-0415925372
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.4 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 572 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Still a troubleshooting force in areas of thinking and artistic endeavor, French Theory is an object of fascination and phobic anxiety. Sylvere Lotringer--to whom we owe a debt of thanks for organizing the most subversive incursion of theory in America--together with Sande Cohen, has put together an outstanding collection of essays that interrogates the boundaries and territorialities of contemporary thought. Stripped of its French passport and equipped with fake American IDs, French Theory belongs, finally, to no recognizable national entity and cannot be reduced to an identity politics. Even as it morphs into familiar locutions and forms, it remains resolutely difficult, dense, exhilarating and defiant, at once responsible to the past and bravely forward-looking.
–Avital Ronell, New York University
–Avital Ronell, New York University
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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.
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Perhaps this time I will add an English subtitle to my French title, which Tom Bishop just pronounced for this conference whose posters have advertised, with a remarkable painting by May Tansey, that it would be given in French. Read the first page
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I Remember The 80's,
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When a song by Ratt or late-period Journey comes on the car radio, do you roll down the window and pump your fist in the air? If you do, you'll probably do the the same thing with this book. It's all about the good old days, back when shoulder pads were huge and journals like "October" really meant something. But unlike "October," Frech Theory never dies -- it just glistens with more and more nostalga. And like any good hard rock ballad, this book is dripping with more nostalga than a freshly glazed donut. But you were expecting this, right? It had to be done with Frenchness -- just letting it sit there and get more stale would have been so... unglazed.
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I Remember The 80's,
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This review is from: French Theory in America (Paperback)
When a song by Ratt or late-period Journey comes on the car radio, do you roll down the window and pump your fist in the air? If you do, you'll probably do the the same thing with this book. It's all about the good old days, back when shoulder pads were huge and journals like "October" really meant something. But unlike "October," Frech Theory never dies -- it just glistens with more and more nostalga. And like any good hard rock ballad, this book is dripping with more nostalga than a freshly glazed donut. But you were expecting this, right? It had to be done with Frenchness -- just letting it sit there and get more stale would have been so... unglazed.
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