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...desire to weave between genres and disciplines, and his need to crusade from Bosnia to Darfur, is precisely the problem. They argue that Lévy has failed to do the mental work of constructing and defending philosophical systems the way earlier titans like Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault and Jean-Paul Sartre did. "Previous generations of French intellectuals justified their entire careers on their conceptual work," says philosopher François Cusset, author of French Theory. "Before, the ideas came first and the thinker second; now it's reversed. BHL and the others are moralists who take...
Gullette is something of a one-woman social movement, working in the tradition of Michel Foucault and Simone de Beauvoir to raise awareness of the negative effects of modern culture, specifically its attitudes toward aging. Her previous books, Declining to Decline: Cultural Combat and the Politics of the Midlife and Safe at Last in the Middle Years: The Invention of the Midlife Progress Novel, both focus on popular misconceptions of aging...
...20th century seemed fundamental, she simply exclaimed: “That’s wonderful! You’ll always have something fabulous to talk about at cocktail parties!” Before our exchange I hadn’t deluded myself that my views on Derrida and Foucault would ever change the world, but I did believe I was pursuing something less mundane than cocktail party fare. I was crest-fallen. Where was the appreciation for the humanistic and well-rounded individual...
...services of those affected by the disease. The styles of the panels vary greatly. Some commemorate parents and children—such as activist Elizabeth Glaser and her daughter Ariel—while others celebrate the famed—including Arthur Ashe, Perry Ellis, Eazy E, Keith Haring, Michel Foucault, Rudolf Nureyev and author Arnold Lobel...
...comic strip that contained an Asian-American character who happened to go to Harvard. We'll call him, er, "Mr. Wu." And then I might refuse to make this "Mr. Wu" perfect--I'd give him a flaw or two, like pronounced flatulence or a fondness for reading Foucault and Derrida in his spare time...