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Continental Theory Buffalo is the inaugural volume of the Humanities to the Rescue book series, a public humanities project dedicated to discussing the role of the arts and humanities today. This book is a collaborative act of humanistic renewal that builds on the transcontinental legacy of May 1968 to offer insightful readings of the cultural (d)evolution of the last fifty years. The volume contributors revisit, reclaim and reassess the ""revolutionary"" legacy of May 1968 in light of the urgency of the present and the future. Their essays are effective illustrations of the potential of such interpretive traditions as philosophy, literature and cultural criticism to run interference with (and offer alternatives to) the instrumentalist logic and predatory structures that are reducing the world to a collection of quantifiable and tradeable resources. The book will be of interest to cultural historians and theorists, media studies scholars, political scientists, and students of French and Francophone literature and culture on both sides of the Atlantic. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to the generous support of the Humanities Institute at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. It can also be found in the SUNY Open Access Repository at https://soar.suny.edu/handle/20.500.12648/15539.

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Author:   David R. Castillo ,  Jean-Jacques Thomas ,  Ewa Płonowska Ziarek
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438486451

ISBN 10:   1438486456
Pages:   266
Publication Date:   01 December 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: Humanities to the Rescue David R. Castillo Continental Theory and Graphic Narrative: A Long Yet Missed Encounter Jan Baetens When Poetry Talks Theory: Language Poetry and New Narrative's Dialogue with Continental Critical Theory and Philosophy Vincent Broqua OulipoHack Peter Consenstein Poststructuralist Turn? Jonathan Culler France, 1968, and the Radical Politics of 1970s Film Theory Jane M. Gaines Postscriptum on the Master's Tools Lucile Haute Return to Form? Expanded Formalism and the Idea of Literature Alison James Not Reading Blanchot: Theory and Practice Émile Lévesque-Jalbert Politics and Life Are Not Coextensive: Nancy, Badiou, Balibar, and General Equivalence Alberto Moreiras Is Love Revolutionary? Lacan and Duras after '68 Fernanda Negrete May '68 and SubStance Michel Pierssens May '68 and the Crisis of Philosophy of History: Georges Bataille, Furio Jesi, and Latin America Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott Afterword: Ends of Thinking in Computational Age Ewa Plonowska Ziarek Contributors Index

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David R. Castillo is Professor of Spanish and Humanities Institute Director at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Jean-Jacques Thomas is Distinguished Professor and Melodia E. Jones Endowed Chair at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Ewa Plonowska Ziarek is Julian Park Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Buffalo, State University of New York; a Senior Research Fellow at the College of Fellows, Philosophy, at Western Sydney University; and a Visiting Faculty in the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts at the University of Maine.

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