Angermuller, Johannes (2015) Why there is no poststructuralism in France : the making of an intellectual generation. Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy . London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781474226301

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Abstract

French thinkers such as Lacan and Derrida are often labelled as representatives of 'poststructuralism' in the Anglophone world. However in France, where their work originated, they use no such category; this group of theorists – 'the poststructuralists' - were never perceived as a coherent intellectual group or movement.

Outlining the institutional contexts, affinities, and rivalries of, among others, Althusser, Barthes, Foucault, Irigaray, and Kristeva, Angermuller – drawing from Bourdieu's concepts of cultural capital and the academic field – insightfully explores post-structuralism as a phenomenon. By tracing the evolution of the French intellectual field after the war, Why There is No Poststructuralism in France places French Theory both in the specific material conditions of its production and the social and historical contexts of its reception, accounting for a particularly creative moment in French intellectual life which continues to inform the theoretical imaginary of our time.

Item Type:	Book
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics
Series Name:	Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy
Publisher:	Bloomsbury
Place of Publication:	London
ISBN:	9781474226301
Official Date:	2015
Dates:	Date Event 2015 Published
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
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