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1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Cultural memory in the present
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Cultural memory in the present.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : the matter with transparency -- Was transparency an optical problem? : a short history -- France, year zero : perception and reality after the liberation -- The world's opacity to consciousness : Sartre and Merleau-Ponty -- The image of science and the limits of knowledge -- Machines and the cogito -- From the total man to the other : UNESCO, anti-colonialism, and the new humanism of French anthropology -- What is social transparency? : a second short history -- Between state and society, I : the police, the black market, and 'the gangster' after the libération -- Between state and society, II : psychology, public health, and the rebellion of the inadaptés -- Alienation, utopia, and Marxism after 1956 -- Mask, face, and other as avatars of selfhood : a third short history -- The norm and the same -- The third order, or the structural 'symbolic' as epistemological interface -- Lévi-Strauss' world out of sync -- The ethnographer, cinéma-vérité, and the disruption of the natural order : chronicle of a summer -- Return to Rousseau : Lévi-Strauss, Starobinski, Derrida -- Return to Descartes : 'the last tribunal of the cogito' -- "Speak not of darkness, but of a somewhat blurred light" : Michel Foucault, modernity, and the distortion of knowledge -- Cybernetic complexity : prehistory, biology, and Derrida's program for liberation -- The present time and the agent of history before and after May 1968 -- The myth of the self-transparency of society : Claude Lefort and his circle -- Nineteen eighty-four : information, the scrambled signs of the ideal, and the postmodern condition. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Philosophy, French -- 20th century.
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Philosophy, French. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Transparency (Philosophy)
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Transparency (Philosophy) |
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Knowledge, Theory of. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Geroulanos, Stefanos, 1979- Transparency in postwar France. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2017 9780804799744 (DLC) 2016057865 (OCoLC)978623429 |
| ISBN |
9781503603417 (electronic book) |
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1503603415 (electronic book) |
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9780804799744 |
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0804799741 |
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1503604594 |
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9781503604599 |
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