A specialist in contemporary intellectual and political history, he is the author of french theory. Reveling in the gossipy history, cusset reveals how french theory has become. At the start, theres a fascinating chapter on the development of the us university that really situates how this reinvention was able to bloom here. The purpose of my research is to see if it is possible to follow the journey described by cusset through the. Review of francois cussets french theory university of minnesota press. Transformed the intellectual life of the united states minneapolis. By contrast, french theory pays attention to how their work connected up with artists, musicians, writers, and sundry denizens of various countercultures. Francois cusset delivered the following plenary lecture on critical education to the annual meeting of the society for french historical studies at colorado. Many among them, whether marginal academics or selftaught technicians, read deleuze and guattari for their logic of.
The first is a kind of cultural isolation denounced by the author as provincialism. Request pdf on jan 1, 2010, jennifer ferng and others published french. Thus fields such as cultural studies reveal a massive blindspot in the way they laud the. Transformed the intellectual life of the united states. If i would have read this at the beginning of grad school, i would have felt he was totally wrong. Cusset argues that the us has reinvented french theory for its own purposes, straying far from its original intentions in france. Abstractin his 2003 book, written in french under the title of french theory, francois cusset examined how some of the main french thinkers. French theory is the first comprehensive account of the american fortunes of these unlikely philosophical celebrities. For cusset, this reveals both the popularity and most troubling aspects of french theory in america where a subject like madonna becomes the object of serious academic discourse, employing french theory to do so, for the utilitarian purpose of attracting studentscustomers to the major or selling books. Transformed the intellectual life of the united states university of minnesota press. French theory project muse johns hopkins university. On apr 1, 2008, francois cusset and others published french theory. Francois cusset french theory free ebook download as pdf file. Lamarchevadels figurations 19601973, where jeanfrancois lyotards first.
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