| French Intellectual Nobility: Institutional and Symbolic Transformations in the Post-Sartrian Era Contributor(s): Kauppi, Niilo (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791431444 ISBN-13: 9780791431443 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1996 Annotation: 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. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 194 |
| LCCN: 96-3771 |
| Series: Suny the Sociology of Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.48" H x 5.85" W x 8.86" (0.66 lbs) 204 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |