French Philosophy, French History, French Literature
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Overview
French thinkers like Roland Barthes, Pierre Bourdieu, A. J. Greimas, Michel Foucault, and Claude Levi-Strauss created the "structuralist" and "poststructuralist" movements. They succeeded Sartrian existentialism and formed a new aristocracy of culture. French Intellectual Nobility is the first study to examine the conditions for the creation of these movements. Through case studies in cultural history, sociology, semiology, and literature, the book discusses the processes that enabled the French intellectual nobility to reinvent itself. By developing a historical and comparative approach, Kauppi analyzes the challenges that an intellectual generation faced, and he contributes to a context-sensitive analysis of culture and power.Editorials
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A study recounting the sociohistorical conditions of the post-Sartrian era of French intellectualism and theory since the end of the 1950s. Avoiding a critique of ideas, the volume instead presents an analysis of the institutional and symbolic shaping of French ideas and intellectuals in the areas of sociology, semiology, and avant-garde literature. Among the more notable "nobility" acknowledged in the analysis are Roland Barthes, Pierre Bourdieu, A.J. Greimas, Michel Foucault, and Claude Levi-Strauss, the creators of the structuralist and poststructuralist movements. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
November 1, 1996
Publisher
Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, 1996.
Pages
204
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780791431436