The Years of Theory

Table Of Contents

Editor’s Preface

Introduction: The Seminar as a Collective Book

1 Les Cinquante Glorieuses
2 The Uses of the Verb to Be
{Sartre}
3 Reification or Otherness
{Sartre}
4 After Sartre
{Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Beauvoir, Fanon}
5 After the Liberation
{Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Beauvoir, Fanon}
6 Glory to the Binary Opposition!
{Saussure, Levi-Strauss}
7 Saussure in Brazil
{Levi-Strauss}
8 Victory of the Paradigmatic
{Levi-Strauss, Barthes}
9 Utopia: But Where Does Power Come From?
{Baudrillard, Clastres}
10 Enter Lacan
{Lacan}
11 Genealogy of the Look
{Lacan}
12 Class Struggle in Theory
{Althusser}
13 The Lonely Hour of the Last Instance
{Althusser}
14 How to Avoid Meaning
{Derrida}
15 Linguistic Politics of the Third Way
{Derrida}
16 Feminism as Transgression
{Beauvoir, Wittig, Irigaray}
17 Mothers and Moving Images
{Kristeva, Comolli, Baudry}
18 “Moi, Michel Foucault…”
{Foucault}
19 The Prison-House of Subjectification
{Foucault}
20 Nominalism of the Photograph
{Barthes}
21 Philosophy’s Postmodern Theater
{Deleuze}
22 Joyousness of Gilles Deleuze
{Deleuze}
23 Return of le Politique
{Rancière, Balibar, Nancy}
24 Simulating the End of History
{Debord, Baudrillard}

Envoi: Theory after Demarxification
{Latour, Meillassoux, Stiegler, Laruelle}

Index