FRENCH THEORY: HOW FOUCAULT, DERRIDA, DELEUZE, & CO. TRANSFORMED THE INTELLECTUAL LIFE OF THE UNITED STATES
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 w...
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| author | Ferng, Jennifer H. |
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| description | 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? |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/588052022-09-30T11:04:30Z FRENCH THEORY: HOW FOUCAULT, DERRIDA, DELEUZE, & CO. TRANSFORMED THE INTELLECTUAL LIFE OF THE UNITED STATES Ferng, Jennifer H. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Architecture and Planning Ferng, Jennifer H. Ferng, Jennifer H. 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? 2010-09-30T20:16:18Z 2010-09-30T20:16:18Z 2010-04 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1530-9282 0024-094X http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58805 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. en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/leon.2010.43.2.190 Leonardo Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf MIT Press MIT Press |
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