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Mediocracy French Philosophy since the Mid-1970s

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ISBN-10: 1859844308

ISBN-13: 9781859844304

Edition: 2001 (Reprint)

Authors: Dominique Lecourt, Gregory Elliott

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Dominique Lecourt argues that a counter-revolution in French intellectual life has seen the period of the master thinkers of the 1960s succeeded by an era of generalized mediocrity. The author discusses how contemporary French ideology is content to legitimize a globally hegemonic neo-liberalism.
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Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 11/17/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 258
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.52" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Dominique Lecourt was a pupil of Louis Althusser and Jacques Derrida at the Ecole Normal Superieure in the 1960s. Now Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VII, his publications in English include Marxism and Epistemology and Proletarian Science?