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'''French Theory''' is a body of philosophical, literary and social theories, inspired by French authors' texts of the 1960-1980, which has been studied and debated in the American universities since the 1980s. |
'''French Theory''' is a body of philosophical, literary and social theories, inspired by French authors' texts of the 1960-1980, which has been studied and debated in the American universities since the 1980s. |
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French Theory is a body of philosophical, literary and social theories, inspired by French authors' texts of the 1960-1980, which has been studied and debated in the American universities since the 1980s.
The main French authors cited are Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Lacan, Félix Guattari, Jean-François Lyotard, Louis Althusser, Julia Kristeva, Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray.
See also
Bibliography
- French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States, by Francois Cusset and Jeff Fort, 2008
- French Theory in America, by S. Lotringer and Sande Cohen, 2001
- French Social Theory, Mike Gane, 2003
- French Discourse Analysis: The Method of Post Structuralism, by Glyn Williams
- “Times of Theory: On Writing the History of French Theory,” by Warren Breckman, Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 71, no. 3 (July 2010), 339-361. [1]