Intellectuals and the Left in France Since 1968

History as neurosis: Psychoanalysis and Marxism in Édouard Glissant’s Le Discours antillais

“…12 This first appeared as an article in the journal La Pensée but is best known in its English translation by Ben Brewster. See Reader (1987) for an extended discussion of the relation between Lacan and Althusser. 13 Glissant's fellow Martiniquan René Ménil (1907Ménil ( -2004, in contrast, makes considerable use of Althusser: for instance, writing on the latter's concept of relative autonomy: 'Ce qui veut dire que les activités littéraires et artistiques se développent à l'intérieur de notre société et en relation, corrélation, contradiction, détermination réciproque avec les autres activités parmi lesquelles les activités politiques ' (1999: 47-8).…”

“… 12 This first appeared as an article in the journal La Pensée but is best known in its English translation by Ben Brewster. See Reader (1987) for an extended discussion of the relation between Lacan and Althusser. …”

Did we come all that way for this? A critical review of Aune'sRhetoric and Marxism

“…This absence is problematic because these thinkers likewise deal with precisely the issue of resistance in the face of overdeterminism. In fact, much post-marxist theorizing has resulted from activist intellectuals like Foucault and Deleuze wondering at the failure of marxist politics in post-1968 France and in the communist world, and scrutinizing the internal fascism that characterized many left groups (Reader, 1987). Aune's quick dismissal of Foucault and his turn to Habermas as representative of contemporary marxism is rather characteristic of a rhetorical studies mired in staunch resistance to the radicalizing agenda of much postmodern theory.…”

Wolf Lepenies: Homo Europaeus Intellectualis revisitado

“…Ele não está preocupado com o renascimento de l'engagement 25 como apresentado por Sartre em "O que é literatura? ", nem está preocupado com as tarefas apresentadas por Michel Foucault ao intelectual francês quando tentou ir além da concepção sartriana do intelectual como um escritor em sua oposição inacabada e não elaboradaintellectuel universel/intellectuel spécifique 26 (STOEKL, 1992;READER, 1987). A chave aqui é o ano de 1989; Lepenies em várias ocasiões afirma que "1989 não aconteceu apenas no Oriente.…”