The Mediocracy: French Philosophy Since the Mid-1970s by Lecourt, Dominique

The Mediocracy: French Philosophy Since the Mid-1970s (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781859844304)

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The Mediocracy: French Philosophy Since the Mid-1970s by Lecourt, Dominique

The Mediocracy: French Philosophy Since the Mid-1970s

$24.95
The Mediocracy: French Philosophy Since the Mid-1970s by Lecourt, Dominique

The Mediocracy: French Philosophy Since the Mid-1970s

$24.95
Format: Paperback
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Generating great controversy on its publication in France, The Mediocracy argues that a veritable counter-revolution in intellectual life has seen the period of the 'master thinkers' of the 1960s succeeded by an era of generalized mediocrity. Where Althusser or Lacan, Foucault or Derrida once held centre stage, today restorationist currents prevail in academia and on television. Fuelled by a complaisant media, contemporary French ideology seeks neither to interpret nor change the world, but is instead content to legitimise a globally hegemonic neo-liberalism.

Author: Dominique Lecourt
ISBN-10: 1859844308
ISBN-13: 9781859844304
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 11/17/2002
Pages: 258
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 7.21h x 4.98w x 0.78d
By Dominique Lecourt
By Dominique Lecourt
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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?

Gregory Elliott is a member of the editorial collective of Radical Philosophy and author of Althusser: The Detour of Theory and Labourism and the English Genius: The Strange Decay of Labour England?.

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