New Book Announcement: The American Politics of French Theory

*Apologies for cross-posting*

*The American Politics of French Theory: *

*Derrida, Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault in Translation*

By Jason Demers

Working from the premise that May ‘68 is a shorthand that delimits an 
intensive decade of global revolt, Jason Demers documents the 
cross-pollination of French philosophy, international activist 
movements, and American countercultures. From the assassinations of 
Martin Luther King, Jr.**and George Jackson to the revolt at Columbia 
University, the 1968 Democratic National Convention, Woodstock, and the 
Weather Underground, Demers writes French theory into a constellation of 
American events and icons uncontained by national borders.

More than a compelling new take on the history of theory, /The American 
Politics of French Theory/ develops concepts gleaned from the work of 
Derrida, Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault, providing new tools for 
thinking about translation, theory, and politics/. /By recontextualizing 
"French theory" within a complex fabric of mass communication and global 
revolt, Demers demonstrates why it is politically potent and 
methodologically necessary to think of translation associatively.


Reviews:

"/The American Politics of French Theory/ makes an extraordinary 
contribution to history, philosophy, and literary studies. In many ways, 
we have been waiting for such a work for a long time. It addresses the 
fundamental, unsolved mystery of how French theory developed at the 
crossroads of French intellectual culture and American cultural politics."

*Julian Bourg, Associate Professor, Department of History, Boston College*

"Analyzing the interconnected spaces of New York activism in the 1960s, 
which both inspired and transformed the work of French thinkers like 
Deleuze and Guattari, /The American Politics of French Theory/ takes you 
on a fascinating journey crossing in and out of disciplines, and across 
the Atlantic. By reconstructing this neglected counter-narrative, Jason 
Demers makes an extremely valuable contribution to the literature on 
French theory in America."

*Edward Baring, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Drew University*

"/The American Politics of French Theory/ offers not only a rethinking 
of "French theory" as a Franco-American formation, but it demonstrates 
how we cannot and indeed should not think of a series of events and 
texts independently from the radical political movements of the 1960s 
and 1970s."

*David Pettersen, Associate Professor, Department of French and Italian, 
University of Pittsburgh*


Published by University of Toronto Press

https://utorontopress.com/ca/the-american-politics-of-french-theory-3


ISBN 9781487504489 (hardcover)

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Jason Demers, PhD
Department of English, AH 313
University of Regina
3737 Wascana Parkway
Regina, SK
S4S OA2
Phone: (306)585-4465
Email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>

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