French Thought and Literary Theory in the UK

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This collection presents a sort of counter-history or counter-genealogy of the globalization of French thought from the point of view of scholars working in the UK. While the dominating discourse would attribute the US as the source of that globalization, particularly through the 1966 conference on the Languages of Criticism and the Sciences of Man at Johns Hopkins University, this volume of essays serves as a reminder that the UK has also been a principal motor of that globalization. The essays take into account how French thought and literary theory have institutionally taken shape in the UK from the 70s to today, highlight aspects of French thought that have been of particular pertinence or importance for scholars there, and outline how researchers in the UK today are bringing French thought further in terms of teaching and research in this twenty-first century. In short, this volume traces how the country has been behind the reception and development of French thought in Anglophone worlds from the late 70s to the present. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Contents List of Contributors Opening Remarks from an Outlier: The Sur-vie of French Thought in the UK Theory, Philosophy, Literature 1 ‘We Are All Theorists Nowadays’: The ‘Institutionalisation’ of (French) Theory 2 Lingophobia 3 Creative Criticism: A Histori-Manifesto 4 Thoughts from France on the Animal-Human Borderline: Derrida and Animal Rights Philosophers 5 ‘French Thought,’ Postcolonialism, and Islam: Jacques Derrida and Abdelkebir Khatibi 6 Paul Virilio’s Global Britain 7 Critiquing Poststructuralism: The Recent Politics of French 8 The Business School and French Philosophy 9 Inheriting the Question of Technology: Grammatology, Originary Technicity, Ecotechnics Après-coup – Deconstruction Is/In the UK Index