Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
What is theory doing in America? Does high French theory continue to be a significant force in American intellectual life? This volume of new work -- by such French figures as Julia Kristeva, Jacques Derrida, Gerard Genette, and Jean Baudrillard, as well as such American critics as Gayatri Spivak, Sylvere Lotringer, Mario Biagioli, Avital Ronell, and Richard Sennett -- present both discussions of this question and demonstrations of what French theory looks like today, thirty years after its first appearance.
Synopsis
What does it mean todo 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.