Reinventing Community: Identity and Difference in Late Twentieth-century Philosophy and Literature in French (Legenda Main) - Softcover

Hiddlestone, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1904713025 ISBN 13: 9781904713029

Publisher: Routledge, 2004

Synopsis

During recent years critics have increasingly expressed their loss of faith in existing cultural and political collective frameworks, drawing attention instead to irreducible singularity and to radical incommensurability between diverse positions or groups. Hiddleston analyses and challenges this trend, bringing together political, theoretical and literary analysis and juxtaposing the works of critical theorists such as Derrida, Lyotard and Nancy with literature by writers of North African immigrant origin. She presents a critique of those writers who underline the absence of communal identification, proposes a new emphasis on relational networks interconnecting diverse cultural groups, and argues for a more subtle understanding of the complex interplay of the singular and the collective in contemporary French writing.

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Jane Hiddlestone

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1904713025
• ISBN 13: 9781904713029
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 238