ISBN:
9781487504489
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 218 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Cultural spaces
DDC:
418.02
Keywords:
Translating and interpreting Political aspects
;
Translating and interpreting Philosophy
;
USA
;
Bürgerrechtsbewegung
;
Politisches Denken
;
Derrida, Jacques 1930-2004
;
Deleuze, Gilles 1925-1995
;
Guattari, Félix 1930-1992
;
Foucault, Michel 1926-1984
;
Geschichte 1968
Abstract:
Introduction: margins, rhizomes, relays, and conversation -- Translating margins: Paris-Derrida-New York, 1968 -- Translating movement: going underground with Deleuze and Guattari -- Prison liberation by association: Michel Foucault and the George Jackson Atlantic -- In search of common ground: on semiotext(e) and Schizo-Culture -- Disseminating foreign principles
Abstract:
"Working from the premise that May '68 is a shorthand that delimits an intensive decade of global revolt, Jason Demers documents the cross-pollination of French philosophy, international activist movements, and American countercultures. From the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and George Jackson to the revolt at Columbia University, the 1968 Democratic National Convention, Woodstock, and the Weather Underground, Demers writes French theory into a constellation of American events and icons uncontained by national borders. More than a compelling new take on the history of theory, The American Politics of French Theory develops concepts gleaned from the work of Derrida, Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault, providing new tools for thinking about translation, theory, and politics. By recontextualizing "French theory" within a complex fabric of mass communication and global revolt, Demers demonstrates why it is politically potent and methodologically necessary to think of translation associatively."--
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