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Intellectuals and the Left in France Since 1968

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  • © 1987

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  1. Keith A. Reader

    1. Kingston Polytechnic, UK

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. The May ‘Events’ — What Were They?

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    Pages 1-18

  3. Disillusionment and the Role of the Intellectual in France

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    Pages 19-29

  4. Intellectuals and Marxism Since 1968 — Sartre

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    Pages 30-36

  5. Intellectuals and Marxism Since 1968 — the Structuralists

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    Pages 37-52

  6. Intellectuals and Marxism Since 1968 — Modes of Dissidence

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    Pages 53-60

  7. The Politics of Psychoanalysis

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    Pages 61-68

  8. The Politics of Feminism

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    Pages 69-79

  9. Language, Power, and Politics — the Work of Foucault and Deleuze

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    Pages 80-91

  10. Language, Literature, Deconstruction and Politics

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    Pages 92-107

  11. The ‘New Philosophers’

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    Pages 108-114

  12. The Place of Sociology

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    Pages 115-135

  13. Conclusion: The ‘Silence of the Left-Wing Intellectuals’

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    Pages 136-140

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 141-154
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Lacan, Althusser, Derrida, Foucault - the currency of these names in the world of modern thought is widespread. But all too often in the English-speaking world their work and ideas are considered without reference to the context in which they were produced, and this is the gap that this new study sets out to fill. The major revaluation of what constituted the 'political', set in train by the 1968 events is a key theme here, and the work of the best-known French intellectual figures of the time both illuminates and is illuminated by it. But it is not just a new reading of already familiar figures that the reader will find in this work. Writers little-known in the English-speaking world, or hitherto not extensively treated in English, receive similar contextualising attention, so that the recent upsurge in sociology or the impact of a dissident Marxist such as Henri Lefebvre take their place alongside better-known figures in the first book-length English-language survey of one of the most exciting, and often bewildering, periods in European intellectual history.

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  • Kingston Polytechnic, UK

    Keith A. Reader

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