The Time of Theory: A History of Tel Quel (1960-1983) - Hardcover

Ffrench, FrenchPatrick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198158971 ISBN 13: 9780198158974

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1996

Synopsis

This is the first full-length study in any language of one of the most important elements in post-war French intellectual and cultural life. The journal Tel Quel was the focus of much of the intense theoretical activity of Paris in the 1960s and 1970s and played a vital role in the development of the key thinkers of the time, including Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, and Philippe Sollers. Patrick ffrench traces its history, across the "time of theory" and the catastrophe of May 1968, to the review's controversial affirmation of literature as akin to theology in the late 1970s.

About this title

About the Author:

Patrick French, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of French, University College, London.

Review:

"For the French intellectual historians, the book provides a valuable sketch of the founding and dissolution of Tel Quel and its changing editorial staff and shifting intellectual allegiances. It is also a helpful summary of many conceptual innovations made by the journal's contributors."Carolyn J. Dean

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0198158971
• ISBN 13: 9780198158974
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320