French intellectual nobility : institutional and symbolic transformations in the post-Sartrian era

Author(s)

• Kauppi, Niilo

Bibliographic Information

French intellectual nobility : institutional and symbolic transformations in the post-Sartrian era

by Niilo Kauppi

（SUNY series in the sociology of culture）

State University of New York Press, 1996

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-194) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

French thinkers like Roland Barthes, Pierre Bourdieu, A. J. Greimas, Michel Foucault, and Claude Levi-Strauss created the "structuralist" and "poststructuralist" movements. They succeeded Sartrian existentialism and formed a new aristocracy of culture. French Intellectual Nobility is the first study to examine the conditions for the creation of these movements. Through case studies in cultural history, sociology, semiology, and literature, the book discusses the processes that enabled the French intellectual nobility to reinvent itself. By developing a historical and comparative approach, Kauppi analyzes the challenges that an intellectual generation faced, and he contributes to a context-sensitive analysis of culture and power.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. The French Intellectual Habitus and Literary Culture 1. The Ancien Régime: French Literary Culture 2. The Nouveau Ré: The Weight of Past Deeds Part II. The Rise of Structural Constructivsm and Semiology: The Academic Avante-Garde 3. Scientific Practice and Epistemological A priori: Durkheim, Mauss, Lévi-Strauss, Bourdieu 4. The Uses of the "Economy" in Structural Constructivism 5. Semiology and the Dynamics of the Intermediate Space 6. On Scientific Style: The Effects of Two Cultures Part III. Iconoclasm and Parody: The Litarary Avant-Garde Against Sartre 7. System of Succession and System of Coronation 8. The Conditions of Possibility of the New Avant-Garde: The Case of Tel Quel Epilogue: The Emergence of a Tripolar Structure Notes References Index

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• NCID: BA29398569
• ISBN:
  • 0791431436
  • 0791431444
• LCCN: 96003771
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Albany, N.Y.
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 204 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : B2421
  • DC20 : 194
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : France -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Philosophy, French -- 20th century
  • LCSH : French literature -- 20th century
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA10051599