After the brilliance of Derrida, Foucault, Barthes -- what? By most
accounts, the French intellectual scene, poststructuralism, has
split in two. On one side, a few select philosophers as media stars
are pressed for their opinions on virtually every subject; on the
other side, an atomized community of scholars in the social
sciences are bound up in technicalities and muffled by the lack of
a common language. This great divide, Francois Dosse contends,
augurs a tremendous change in the structure and conduct of
intellectual life. What this shift means -- how it has occurred and
what parts various thinkers have played in shaping it -- is the
subject of Empire of Meaning.
An outgrowth of Dosse's magisterial History of Structuralism,
Empire of Meaning is an extended encounter with some of the most
influential French intellectuals. Through interviews and readings,
Dosse reveals what has become of the intellectuals of the
generation of '68 as they have tried to work out the implications
of their revolt against structuralism and the problem of Cold War
existence. Paul Ricoeur, Bruno Latour, Isabelle Stengers, Roger
Chartier, Marcel Gauchet, Dany-Robert Dufour, and Michel Serres are
among the many figures whose words and work unfold in these
pages.
A thorough and thoroughly engrossing work of intellectual
history, Empire of Meaning is a firsthand look at the reshaping of
French intellectual life in our time.
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