| Transparency in Postwar France: A Critical History of the Present Contributor(s): Geroulanos, Stefanos (Author) |
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ISBN: 0804799741 ISBN-13: 9780804799744 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $133.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern - Philosophy | Epistemology - History | Europe - France |
| Dewey: 194 |
| LCCN: 2016057865 |
| Series: Cultural Memory in the Present |
| Physical Information: 1.4" H x 6.3" W x 9.1" (1.85 lbs) 520 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book argues against the widely celebrated utopia of "transparency" by showing, across a panorama of postwar French thought, how attempts to show the perils of transparency in politics, ethics, and knowledge led to major conceptual inventions, many of which we now take for granted. |