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
French intellectual figures of the time both illuminates and is
illuminated by it. But it is not just a new reading of already
familiar figures that the reader will find in this work. Writers
little-known in the English-speaking world, or hitherto not
extensively treated in English, receive similar contextualising
attention, so that the recent upsurge in sociology or the impact of
a dissident Marxist such as Henri Lefebvre take their place
alongside better-known figures in the first book-length
English-language survey of one of the most exciting, and often
bewildering, periods in European intellectual history.
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