Author : Johannes Angermuller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 9781350094475
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (944 download)
Book Synopsis Why There Is No Poststructuralism in France by : Johannes Angermuller
Download or read book Why There Is No Poststructuralism in France written by Johannes Angermuller and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French thinkers such as Lacan and Derrida are often labelled as representatives of 'poststructuralism' in the Anglophone world. However in France, where their work originated, they use no such category; this group of theorists – 'the poststructuralists' - were never perceived as a coherent intellectual group or movement. Outlining the institutional contexts, affinities, and rivalries of, among others, Althusser, Barthes, Foucault, Irigaray, and Kristeva, Angermuller – drawing from Bourdieu's concepts of cultural capital and the academic field – insightfully explores post-structuralism as a phenomenon. By tracing the evolution of the French intellectual field after the war, Why There is No Poststructuralism in France places French Theory both in the specific material conditions of its production and the social and historical contexts of its reception, accounting for a particularly creative moment in French intellectual life which continues to inform the theoretical imaginary of our time.