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FRENCH THEORY: HOW FOUCAULT, DERRIDA, DELEUZE, & CO. TRANSFORMED THE INTELLECTUAL LIFE OF THE UNITED STATES

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Ferng, Jennifer H.
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Abstract
Artist and activist Jean-Jacques Lebel, who had imported beat poetry into France from the United States, once invited Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari to a 1975 concert held in Massachusetts, where the two had the opportunity to meet Bob Dylan and Joan Baez backstage. Somewhat unimpressed with the two French philosophers, the folksingers had not bothered to read Anti-Oedipus, and likewise the two theorists were unfortunately not interested in smoking marijuana: an inadvertent misalignment of social interests, creating a somewhat awkward encounter for all parties involved. This anecdote of an ill-conceived compatibility epitomizes the spirit of comprehending the objectives of French theory and prompts an inevitable query: have we on the U.S. side of the Atlantic been able to come to terms with the French, their traditions of intellectual thought and their philosophical legacy?
Date issued
2010-04
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58805
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Architecture and Planning
Journal
Leonardo
Publisher
MIT Press
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Ferng, Jennifer. “French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States by François Cusset, translated by Jeff Fort, with Josephine Berganza and Marlon Jones. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A., 2008. Originally published in French in 2003. 388 pp. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-8166-4733-0.” Leonardo 43.2 (2010): 190-191. © 2010 ISAST.
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1530-9282
0024-094X

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