The Mediocracy: French Philosophy Since the Mid-1970sVerso, 17 de nov. de 2002 - 258 páginas Generating great controversy on its publication in France, The Mediocracy argues that a veritable counter-revolution in intellectual life has seen the period of the ‘master thinkers’ of the 1960s succeeded by an era of generalized mediocrity. Where Althusser or Lacan, Foucault or Derrida once held centre stage, today restorationist currents prevail in academia and on television. Fuelled by a complaisant media, contemporary French ideology seeks neither to interpret nor change the world, but is instead content to legitimise a globally hegemonic neo-liberalism. |
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Prologue | 3 |
Baby Boom | 6 |
Sixties Militants | 10 |
La Pensée 68 | 24 |
Michel Foucaults Power | 33 |
The Burial of Leftism | 46 |
Gilles Deleuzes Battle | 55 |
The Liberal Transmutation of the French Libertarian | 60 |
Death and Resurrection of the Intellectual | 67 |
Good Evil and Wisdom | 76 |
The Heady Lures of Love | 98 |
Machiavelli in Carpet Slippers | 113 |
Epilogue | 133 |
Bibliography | 222 |
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