Home #edutech MIT OpenCourseWare: New Courses 21F.068J The Invention of French Theory: A History of Transatlantic Intellectual Life since 1945 (MIT)

21F.068J The Invention of French Theory: A History of Transatlantic Intellectual Life since 1945 (MIT)

MIT OpenCourseWare: New Courses 2013-03-28

Summary:

In the decades following the Second World War, a cluster of extraordinary French thinkers were widely translated and read in American universities. Their works were soon labeled as "French Theory." Why would sharing the same nationality make authors such as Lacan, Cixous, Derrida, Foucault or Debord, ambassadors of a specifically "French" theory? The course will explore the maze of transatlantic intellectual debates since 1945 and the heyday of French existentialism. We will study the debates on communism, decolonization, neo‐liberalism, gender, youth culture and mass media. This course is taught in English. Email this Article Add to Facebook Add to Twitter Add to digg Add to Google

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gender camus simone de beauvoir french theory postcolonial france existentialism lacan sartre debord foucault derrida barthes bourdieu lyotard eribon blanchot franz fanon neo-liberalism communism

Authors:

Perreau, Bruno

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Date tagged:

03/28/2013, 16:18

Date published:

01/25/2013, 05:09