Transparency in Postwar France: A Critical History of the Present

by Stefanos Geroulanos

Book Overview

This book returns to a time and place when the concept of transparency was met with deep suspicion. It offers a panorama of postwar French thought where attempts to show the perils of transparency in politics, ethics, and knowledge led to major conceptual inventions, many of which we now take for granted.

Between 1945 and 1985, academics, artists, revolutionaries, and state functionaries spoke of transparency in pejorative terms. Associating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503604594
• ISBN13: 9781503604599
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"