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Author Demers, Jason, 1979- author.

Title The American politics of French theory : Derrida, Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault in translation / Jason Demers.

Publication Info. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division, 2018.

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Description 1 online resource
Series Cultural spaces
Cultural spaces.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Margins, Rhizomes, Relays, and Conversation -- Thinking Translation Associatively; 1 Translating Margins: Paris-Derrida-New York, 1968; 2 Translating Movement: Going Underground with Deleuze and Guattari; I. Paris X New York with Jean-Jacques Lebel; II. For the Movement of Columbia (from the Movement in Columbia); III. Becoming Allies. Becoming Women's LibeRATion; 3 Prison Liberation by Association: Michel Foucault and the George Jackson Atlantic
4 In Search of Common Ground: On Semiotext(e) and Schizo-CultureConclusion: Disseminating Foreign Principles; Works Cited; Index
Summary Connecting French thinkers to the American sixties, The American Politics of French Theory demonstrates why, in an era of mass communication and global revolt, it is politically potent and methodologically necessary to think of translation not as an act of substitution, but as a web of associations.
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Subject Translating and interpreting -- Political aspects -- United States.
Translating and interpreting -- Philosophy.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Multi-Language Phrasebooks.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Alphabets & Writing Systems.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Readers.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Spelling.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Translating and interpreting -- Philosophy.
Translating and interpreting -- Political aspects.
United States.
ISBN 9781487530266 (electronic bk.)
1487530269 (electronic bk.)
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