This work is a study of what is regarded as one of the most important elements in post-war French intellectual and cultural life. The journal "Tel Quel" was the focus of much of the intense theoretical activity of Paris in the 1960s and 1970s and played a vital role in the development of the key thinkers of the time: Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva and Philippe Sollers. Patrick Ffrench traces its history, across the "time of theory" and the catastrophe of May 1968, to the review's controversial affirmation of literature as akin to theology in the late 1970s. Beyond its documentary and historical significance, the book maps a "genealogy" of theory, from its structural austerity and "terror" to a new time "after theory". It should be of interest to scholars and students of literary theory and French Literature.
- ISBN10 0198158971
- ISBN13 9780198158974
- Publish Date 31 December 1995
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 August 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Imprint Clarendon Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 317
- Language English