This book argues against the widely celebrated utopia of "transparency" by showing, across a panorama of postwar French thought, how attempts to show the perils of transparency in politics, ethics, and knowledge led to major conceptual inventions, many of which we now take for granted.
This book argues against the widely celebrated utopia of "transparency" by showing, across a panorama of postwar French thought, how attempts to show the perils of transparency in politics, ethics, and knowledge led to major conceptual inventions, many of which we now take for granted.
Stefanos Geroulanos is Associate Professor of European History and Director of the Center for International Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences at New York University. He is the author of An Atheism that Is Not Humanist Emerges in French Thought (Stanford, 2010).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: The Matter with Transparency 1. Was Transparency an Optical Problem? A Short History 2. France, Year Zero: Perception and Reality after the Liberation 3. The World's Opacity to Consciousness: Sartre and Merleau-Ponty 4. The Image of Science and the Limits of Knowledge 5. Machines and the Cogito 6. From the Total Man to the Other: UNESCO, Anti-Colonialism, and the New Humanism of French Anthropology 7. What Is Social Transparency? A Second Short History 8. Between State and Society, I: The Police, the Black Market, and "the Gangster" after the Liberation 9. Between State and Society, II: Psychology, Public Health, and the Rebellion of the Inadaptés 10. Alienation, Utopia, and Marxism after 1956: A Clarity Worse Than the Penumbra 11. Face, Mask, and Other as Avatars of Selfhood: A Third Short History 12. The Norm and the Same 13. The Third Order, or the Structural "Symbolic" as Epistemological Interface 14. Lévi-Strauss's World Out of Sync 15. The Ethnographer, Cinéma-vérité, and the Disruption of the Natural Order: Chronicle of a Summer 16. Return to Rousseau: Lévi-Strauss, Starobinski, Derrida 17. Return to Descartes: "The Last Tribunal of the Cogito" 18. "Speak Not of Darkness, but of a Somewhat Blurred Light": Michel Foucault, Modernity, and the Distortion of Knowledge 19. Cybernetic Complexity: Prehistory, Biology, and Derrida's Program for Liberation 20. The Present Time and the Agent of History before and after May 1968 21. The Myth of the Self-Transparency of Society: Claude Lefort and His Circle 22. Nineteen Eighty-Four: Information, the Scrambled Signs of the Ideal, and The Postmodern Condition
Introduction: The Matter with Transparency 1. Was Transparency an Optical Problem? A Short History 2. France, Year Zero: Perception and Reality after the Liberation 3. The World's Opacity to Consciousness: Sartre and Merleau-Ponty 4. The Image of Science and the Limits of Knowledge 5. Machines and the Cogito 6. From the Total Man to the Other: UNESCO, Anti-Colonialism, and the New Humanism of French Anthropology 7. What Is Social Transparency? A Second Short History 8. Between State and Society, I: The Police, the Black Market, and "the Gangster" after the Liberation 9. Between State and Society, II: Psychology, Public Health, and the Rebellion of the Inadaptés 10. Alienation, Utopia, and Marxism after 1956: A Clarity Worse Than the Penumbra 11. Face, Mask, and Other as Avatars of Selfhood: A Third Short History 12. The Norm and the Same 13. The Third Order, or the Structural "Symbolic" as Epistemological Interface 14. Lévi-Strauss's World Out of Sync 15. The Ethnographer, Cinéma-vérité, and the Disruption of the Natural Order: Chronicle of a Summer 16. Return to Rousseau: Lévi-Strauss, Starobinski, Derrida 17. Return to Descartes: "The Last Tribunal of the Cogito" 18. "Speak Not of Darkness, but of a Somewhat Blurred Light": Michel Foucault, Modernity, and the Distortion of Knowledge 19. Cybernetic Complexity: Prehistory, Biology, and Derrida's Program for Liberation 20. The Present Time and the Agent of History before and after May 1968 21. The Myth of the Self-Transparency of Society: Claude Lefort and His Circle 22. Nineteen Eighty-Four: Information, the Scrambled Signs of the Ideal, and The Postmodern Condition
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