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French intellectual nobility : institutional and symbolic transformations in the post-Sartrian era
- Title
- French intellectual nobility : institutional and symbolic transformations in the post-Sartrian era / by Niilo Kauppi.
- Author
- Kauppi, Niilo.
- Publication
- Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [1996], ©1996.
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- Description
- xii, 204 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- French thinkers like Roland Barthes, Pierre Bourdieu, A. J. Greimas, Michel Foucault, and Claude Levi-Strauss created the "structuralist" and "poststructuralist" movements. They succeeded Sartrian existentialism and formed a new aristocracy of culture. French Intellectual Nobility is the first study to examine the conditions for the creation of these movements.
- Through case studies in cultural history, sociology, semiology, and literature, the book discusses the processes that enabled the French intellectual nobility to reinvent itself. By developing a historical and comparative approach, Kauppi analyzes the challenges that an intellectual generation faced, and he contributes to a context-sensitive analysis of culture and power.
- Series Statement
- SUNY series in the sociology of culture
- Uniform Title
- SUNY series in the sociology of culture.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Pt. I. The French Intellectual Habitus and Literary Culture. Ch. 1. The Ancien Regime: French Literary Culture. Ch. 2. The Nouveau Regime: The Weight of Past Deeds -- Pt. II. The Rise of Structural Constructivism and Semiology: The Academic Avant-Garde. Ch. 3. Scientific Practice and Epistemological A priori: Durkheim, Mauss, Levi-Strauss, Bourdieu. Ch. 4. The Uses of the "Economy" in Structural Constructivism. Ch. 5. Semiology and the Dynamics of the Intermediate Space. Ch. 6. On Scientific Style: The Effects of Two Cultures -- Pt. III. Iconoclasm and Parody: The Literary Avant-Garde Against Sartre. Ch. 7. System of Succession and System of Coronation. Ch. 8. The Conditions of Possibility of the New Avant-Garde: The Case of Tel Quel. Epilogue: The Emergence of a Tripolar Structure.
- ISBN
- 0791431436 (alk. paper)
- 0791431444 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 96003771
- OCLC
- 34151249
- ocm34151249
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries