Intellectuals and the Left in France Since 1968

by Keith A. Reader

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349185833
• ISBN13: 9781349185832
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"