Agonies of the Intellectual: Commitment, Subjectivity, and the Performative in the Twentieth-Century French Tradition

Lingua: inglese

Editore: University of Nebraska Press, 1992

0803242158 / 9780803242159

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Photos included in listing. About the book The term intellectual first came into use at the turn of the century as a reproach to a group of writers who defended Dreyfus against the military and government of France. The role and status of the intellectual has been closely scrutinized and fiercely disputed ever since-and not only in France. Intellectual movements emanating from Paris have repeatedly crossed the Atlantic in great waves. In Agonies of the Intellectual Allan Stoekl sorts out the theoretical foundations of the French intellectual from Emile Durkheim, a founder of modern sociology, through the interbellum communists, the postwar existentialists, and the recent structuralists, deconstructionists, and postmodernists. He treats the works of Paul Nizan, Drieu la Rochelle, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Paulhan, Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, Michel Foucault, Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, and Jean Baudrillard. Taking as his starting point Durkheim's thesis that modern intellectuals are "secular clerics," Stoekl differentiates them from the older traditions of priests, philosophes, and academics. His concern is the very real crisis of duty felt by intellectuals who have demonstrated their agony not only in print but also in confrontation, wartime resistance, or collaboration. They have agonized about their powers, their responsibilities, and their relations to other people. Agonies of the Intellectual looks hard at the difficult intersection of thought and act: decision.…

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Titolo
Agonies of the Intellectual: Commitment, Subjectivity, and the Performative in the Twentieth-Century French Tradition
Autore
Stoekl, Allan
Editore
University of Nebraska Press
Anno di pubblicazione
1992
Condizione
Buono
Rilegatura
Rilegato
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0803242158
ISBN 13
9780803242159
Peso dell'articolo
0,726 chilogrammi
Dimensioni
15,88 centimetri di larghezza per 24,13 centimetri di altezza per 3,18 centimetri di profondità
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History of Science, Philosophy

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