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1 [lbo-talk] Early notes on Cusset -- rank: 1000

The Francois Cusset book, French Theory arrived yesterday and I am into the ... of public education in the US today. Getting back to Cusset, in chapter one, he opens with a quote from Malraux. But I think Cusset should have started with a quick sketch into the American ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Wed Nov 11 15:35:31 PST 2009

2 [lbo-talk] I carcere, forensic profiles in philosophy -- rank: 775

C. Grimes wrote: In any event, I think it is time for an obituary and general appraisal. By that I mean, what do people think in general terms of these intellectual movements. And further, did they have much effect on their primary target, the life of the mind and its relation ...

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Author:	Dwayne Monroe
Date:	Mon Apr 13 12:25:09 PDT 2009

3 [lbo-talk] French Theory -- rank: 775

... the whole business with After Theory (2004). Do you find Cusset interesting as more than a nostalgia trip? Anyone kicking around ... shag wrote: > Dewds! I'm quite excited by this book, Francois Cusset's _French Theory: How > Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed the ...

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Author:	C. G. Estabrook
Date:	Wed Sep 24 17:57:42 PDT 2008

4 [lbo-talk] French Theory -- rank: 733

Dewds! I'm quite excited by this book, Francois Cusset's _French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed the ... But I should repeat here that what is key for Cusset is the way French theory was taken up in the ...

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Author:	shag
Date:	Wed Sep 24 17:28:27 PDT 2008

5 [lbo-talk] Texas school board drops Jefferson, adds Calvin -- rank: 644

... wrote: >I thought that, thanks to the >extended discussion of Francois Cusset's _French Theory_: > > ><http://search.lbo-talk.org/search/swish.cgi?query=Francois+Cusset&submit=Search!&metaname=swishdefault&sort=unixdate> > > >http://bit.ly/9OBhao ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Mon Mar 22 13:57:35 PDT 2010

6 [lbo-talk] Texas school board drops Jefferson, adds Calvin -- rank: 644

Yesterday, I ran into an old...what should say? 'Girlfriend' seems too 'all tomorrow's parties'. And 'lover', coming from an American, carries the faint echo of 'I've seen "films" you haven't seen' pretension. At least to me. Anyway, in the midst of my mundane Sunday travels -- which, this ...

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Author:	Dwayne Monroe
Date:	Mon Mar 22 13:50:27 PDT 2010

7 [lbo-talk] How radical was Derrida? (was 'does anyone read poststructuralism anymore?') -- rank: 526

The intellectual milieu Derrida moved in at the Ecole Normale Superieur and as a contributor to the journal Tel Quel, was heavily influenced by an increasingly radical outlook, that moved from official Communism to posturing Maoism. Politically, though, Derrida's instincts were more much conservative. As a Jew in French Algeria ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Nov 3 00:16:01 PST 2009

8 [lbo-talk] chesty Bavarian waitress -- rank: 526

... with various texts, I have been waiting and waiting for Francois Cusset's _French Theory_. It finally came today and, reading the ... discussion on, reinterpretation of Marxism -- best exemplified perhaps by Jean-Francois Lyotard's delirious suggestion in _Libidinal Economy_ that there have ...

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Author:	shag
Date:	Tue Sep 23 15:46:15 PDT 2008

9 [lbo-talk] Shag on French Theory -- rank: 408

... 015553.html Dewds! I'm quite excited by this book, Francois Cusset's _French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed the ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Sun May 17 19:20:27 PDT 2009

10 [lbo-talk] French Theory -- rank: 408

I've been reading French Theory by Francois Cusset. It's very good and I think anyone who has ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Sun May 17 18:55:30 PDT 2009

11 [lbo-talk] I carcere, forensic profiles in philosophy -- rank: 408

Where to re-start? How to re-orient? How to explain? I think you are creating straw man Chuck. Actually I'll call him mirror man Chuck. So I won't argue with myself as Other. It gets too confusing. This link btw performs the same mirror game and or concept ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Mon Apr 13 18:16:06 PDT 2009

12 [lbo-talk] NYT: How much has French PoMo influenced US "intellectual life"? -- rank: 408

... States” (University of Minnesota Press). The book’s author is Francois Cusset, who sets himself the tasks of explaining, fir

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Author:	B.
Date:	Thu Apr 10 21:42:55 PDT 2008