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Radicalism in French Culture - A Sociology of French Theory in the 1960s (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Radicalism in French Culture - A Sociology of French Theory in the 1960s (Hardcover, New Ed)
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An invisible pattern draws together most studies dealing with
French cultural radicalism in the 1960s with intellectual creation
reduced to individual creation and the role of semiotic and social
factors that influence intellectual innovation minimized.
Sociological approaches often see a more or less external link
between social location and intellectual production but, because of
their structural approach, they are incapable of taking into
account unique historical circumstances, the crucial role of
personal impulses, and more importantly the semiotic logic of ideas
as conditions of innovative thinking. This ground-breaking book
will further an internal sociological analysis of ideas and styles
of thought. It will show that the defining but largely neglected
feature of what has become "French theory" was a collective mind
and style of thought, an explosive but fragile mixture of
scientific and political radicalism that rather quickly watered
down to academic orthodoxy. For some time, radical intellectuals
succeeded in producing ideas that were perfectly in tune with the
demands of the consumers, mostly the young university audience.
Ideas were used as part of radical posture that was set in
opposition to the establishment and "those in power". Ideas could
not be too empirical or verifiable, and they had to shock. It is
not surprising that a slew of new sciences and concepts were
invented to indicate this radical posture. The central argument of
this study is that ideas become "power-ideas" only if they succeed
in uniting individual and collective psychic investment in powerful
social networks with significant institutional and political
backing. These conditions were met in the French context for a
certain specific period of time. From roughly the mid-1960s to the
beginning of the 1970s, radical intellectuals such as Roland
Barthes, Pierre Bourdieu, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Julia
Kristeva developed a host of new ideas, concepts and theories, a
number of which have subsequently been labelled as French theory.
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