French theory in America

Machine generated contents note: 0. Introduction: A Few Theses on French Theory in America -- Sylvere Lotringer and Sande Cohen --PART ONE: SOME VIEWS FROM FRANCE -- 1. Deconstructions: The Im-possible 13 -- Jacques Derrida -- 2. Europhilia, Europhobia 33 -- Julia Kristeva -- 3. For a Political Roland Barthes 47 -- Francoise Gaillard -- 4. From Radical Incertitude, or Thought as Impostor 59 -- Jean Baudrillard -- 5. Sketching an Intellectual Itinerary 71 -- Gerard Genette -- 6. Jacques Lacan, or the Erasure of History 87 -- Elisab'eth Roudinesco -- 7. What Is the Creative Act? 99 -- Gilles Deleuze --PART TWO: FRENCH THEORY IN AMERICA -- 8. Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Schizo-Jansenist and -- Pseudo-Joycean Precursor of and Preparer for the Dissemination of French Theory in North America 111 -- Donald F. Theall -- 9. Doing Theory 125 -- Sylvere Lotringer -- 10. Blackboxing in Theory: Deleuze versus Deleuze 163 -- Elie During -- 11. Critical Inquiry, October, and Historicizing French Theory 191 -- Sande Cohen -- 12. How French Is It? 217 -- Andrea Loselle -- 13. Frenchifying Film Studies: Projecting Lacan onto the Feminist Scene 237 -- Kriss Ravetto -- 14. Disappearing Acts: The French Theory Effect in the Art World 259 -- Alison M. Gingeras -- 15. From Difference to Blackboxing: French Theory versus Science Studies' Metaphysics of Presence 271 -- Mario Biagioli --SUPPLEMENTS -- A. Research Historians and French Theory 289 -- Sande Cohen -- B. Ecceity, Smash and Grab, The Expand.

Includes bibliographical references and index.