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

Stoekl, Allan

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ISBN 10: 0803242158 ISBN 13: 9780803242159

Verlag: University of Nebraska Press, 1992

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"A valuable contribution to twentieth-century French intellectual history. It will be required reading for specialists in French literature and intellectual history and also for those involved in contemporary theory."-Thomas Pavel, Princeton University -- Thomas Pavel "A long duration intellectual history-smart, patient, beautifully constructed. A fine achievement."-Alice Yaeger Kaplan, Duke University -- Alice Yaeger Kaplan

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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 ex-istentialists, 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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• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0803242158
• ISBN 13: 9780803242159
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384