Continental Theory Buffalo
Transatlantic Crossroads of a Critical Insurrection
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Continental Theory Buffalo
Transatlantic Crossroads of a Critical Insurrection
About this book
Revisits, reassesses, and reclaims the legacy of May '68 in light of our present cultural and historical emergency. Continental Theory Buffalo is the inaugural volume of the Humanities to the Rescue book series, a public humanities project dedicated to discussing the role of the arts and humanities today. This book is a collaborative act of humanistic renewal that builds on the transcontinental legacy of May 1968 to offer insightful readings of the cultural (d)evolution of the last fifty years. The volume contributors revisit, reclaim and reassess the "revolutionary" legacy of May 1968 in light of the urgency of the present and the future. Their essays are effective illustrations of the potential of such interpretive traditions as philosophy, literature and cultural criticism to run interference with (and offer alternatives to) the instrumentalist logic and predatory structures that are reducing the world to a collection of quantifiable and tradeable resources. The book will be of interest to cultural historians and theorists, media studies scholars, political scientists, and students of French and Francophone literature and culture on both sides of the Atlantic. David R. Castillo is Professor of Spanish and Humanities Institute Director at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Jean-Jacques Thomas is Distinguished Professor and Melodia E. Jones Endowed Chair at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Ewa Plonowska Ziarek is Julian Park Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Buffalo, State University of New York; a Senior Research Fellow at the College of Fellows, Philosophy, at Western Sydney University; and a Visiting Faculty in the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts at the University of Maine.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Humanities to the Rescue
- Continental Theory and Graphic Narrative: A Long Yet Missed Encounter
- When Poetry Talks Theory: Language Poetry and New Narrative’s Dialogue with Continental Critical Theory and Philosophy
- OulipoHack
- Poststructuralist Turn?
- France, 1968, and the Radical Politics of 1970s Film Theory
- Postscriptum on the Master’s Tools
- Return to Form? Expanded Formalism and the Idea of Literature
- Not Reading Blanchot: Theory and Practice
- Politics and Life Are Not Coextensive: Nancy, Badiou, Balibar, and General Equivalence
- Is Love Revolutionary? Lacan and Duras after ’68
- May ’68 and SubStance
- May ’68 and the Crisis of Philosophy of History: Georges Bataille, Furio Jesi, and Latin America
- Afterword: Ends of Thinking in Computational Age
- Contributors
- Index
- Back Cover