The postwar French thought to the present Jameson, Fredric 1934-2024 creator Welch, Carson editor text bibliography biography enk 2024 monographic eng xi, 458 pages ; 24 cm "Fredric Jameson introduces the major themes of French theory: existentialism, structuralism, poststructuralism, semiotics, feminism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism. In a series of accessible lectures, he places this effervescent period of thought in the context of its most significant political conjunctures, including the Liberation of Paris, the Algerian War, the uprisings of May '68, and the creation of the EU"-- Editor’s Preface Introduction: The Seminar as a Collective Book Les Cinquante Glorieuses The Uses of the Verb to Be (Sartre) Reification or Otherness (Sartre) After Sartre (Sartre, Merleau‑Ponty, Beauvoir, Fanon) After the Liberation (Sartre, Merleau‑Ponty, Beauvoir, Fanon) Glory to the Binary Opposition! (Saussure, Levi‑Strauss) Saussure in Brazil (Levi‑Strauss) Victory of the Paradigmatic (Levi‑Strauss, Barthes) Utopia: But Where Does Power Come From? (Baudrillard, Clastres) Enter Lacan (Lacan) Genealogy of the Look (Lacan) Class Struggle in Theory (Althusser) The Lonely Hour of the Last Instance (Althusser) How to Avoid Meaning (Derrida) Linguistic Politics of the Third Way (Derrida) Feminism as Transgression (Beauvoir, Wittig, Irigaray) Mothers and Moving Images (Kristeva, Comolli, Baudry) “Moi, Michel Foucault…” (Foucault) The Prison-House of Subjectification (Foucault) Nominalism of the Photograph (Barthes) Philosophy’s Postmodern Theater (Deleuze) Joyousness of Gilles Deleuze (Deleuze) Return of le Politique (Rancière, Balibar, Nancy) Simulating the End of History (Debord, Baudrillard) Envoi: Theory after Demarxification (Latour, Meillassoux, Stiegler, Laruelle) Index Fredric Jameson ; edited by Carson Welch. Includes bibliographical references and index. Philosophy, French 20th century Filosofía francesa Siglo XX B 2421 J31y 2024 194 Jameson, Fredric. London : Verso, 2024 (DLC) 2024021593 9781804295892 (paperback) 1804295892 (paperback) 2024021592 DLC 240514 20260513125314.0 23691149 eng