Terror and Consensus

Vicissitudes of French Thought

By: Jean-Joseph Goux (Editor), Philip R. Wood (Editor)

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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 society that has been the final outcome of the liquidation of the colonial empire, the collapse of Marxism as a social force, and the integration of France into the European Union.

The contributors are Jean-Marie Apostolid s, Marc Aug , Barbara Cassin, Fran oise Gaillard, Maurice Godelier, Jean-Joseph Goux, Fran oise Lionnet, Jean-Fran ois Lyotard, Mark Poster, Pierre Saint-Amand, Susan Suleiman, and Philip R. Wood.

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"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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Contributors
Introduction	p. 1
Speak, If You Are a Man, or The Transcendental Exclusion	p. 13
Terror on the Run	p. 25
Subversion and Consensus: Proletarians, Women, Artists	p. 37
The French Exception: End or Continuation?	p. 57
The Terror of Consensus	p. 65
"Democracy" and "Totalitarianism" in Contemporary French Thought: Neoliberalism, the Heidegger Scandal, and Ethics in Post-Structuralism	p. 75
Postmodernity and the Politics of Multiculturalism: The Lyotard-Habermas Debate over Social Theory	p. 104
Performative Universalism and Cultural Diversity: French Thought and American Contexts	p. 119
Mission and Limits of the Enlightenment: Theater and Terror: Le jugement dernier des rois	p. 135
Hostile Enlightenment	p. 145
The Intellectual Sublime: Zola as Archetype of a Cultural Myth	p. 159
Is the West the Universal Model for Humanity? The Baruya of New Guinea Between Change and Decay	p. 173
Reference Matter
Notes	p. 197
Index of Names	p. 219
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