June 13, 2008
America's Tolerance for French Radicalism
The publication of François Cusset's French Theory raises a series of fascinating questions concerning the trans-Atlantic transmission and circulation of ideas. Most important, it impels us to inquire why for a time French thought managed to flourish in American universities while French intellectuals rapidly abandoned the entire paradigm.
Paradoxically, in France leading intellectuals found it impossible to reconcile French theory's Nietzsche-inspired antihumanism —
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