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. Ed(S): Goux, Jean-Joseph; Wood, Philip R. (Qc (Hon)) - Terror and Consensus - 9780804729697 - V9780804729697
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Terror and Consensus

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Description for Terror and Consensus hardcover. This volume of twelve essays focuses on two interrelated issues: first, it addresses the historical and cultural determinants that have given rise to what frequently has been described as the French exception; second, the contributors assess the exhaustion of this tradition in recent years. Editor(s): Goux, Jean-Joseph; Wood, Philip R. (QC (Hon)). Num Pages: 236 pages, index, reference. BIC Classification: HBJD; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 20. Weight in Grams: 515.

This volume of twelve essays focuses on two interrelated issues. First, it addresses the historical and cultural determinants that have given rise to what frequently has been described as “the French exception,” the unusually conflictual French political process inherited from the revolutionary past in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and its accompanying avant-gardism in artistic, literary, and philosophical practice, both of which distinguish France from other European countries.

Second, the contributors assess the exhaustion of this tradition in recent years—noted prominently on the occasion of the celebration of the bicentennial of the Revolution in 1989—in a progressive “normalization” of French ... Read more

The contributors are Jean-Marie Apostolidès, Marc Augé, Barbara Cassin, Françoise Gaillard, Maurice Godelier, Jean-Joseph Goux, Françoise Lionnet, Jean-François Lyotard, Mark Poster, Pierre Saint-Amand, Susan Suleiman, and Philip R. Wood.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
Number of Pages
236
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804729697
SKU
V9780804729697
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

Reviews for Terror and Consensus
“It is the singular virtue of this superb collection that it refuses to dismiss the terms ‘terror’ and ‘consensus’ as simple rhetorical posturing, using them instead to dig deep into the debates that structure the current Franco-American critical scene.” —Peter Starr, University of Southern California

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