Table of Contents
Introduction: A Few Theses on French Theory in America, Sylvere Lotringer & Sande Cohen Part One: Some Views from France 1. Deconstructions: The Im-possible, Jacques Derrida 2. For a Political Roland Barthes, Francoise Gaillard 3. Europhilia, Europhobia, Julia Kristeva 4. From Radical Incertitude, or Thought as Imposter, Jean Baudrillard 5. Sketch of an Intellectual Itinerary, Gerard Genette 6. Jacques Lacan or The Erasure of History, Elisabeth Roudinesco 7. What is the Creative Act?, Giles Deleuze Part Two: French Theory in America 8. Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Schizo-Jansenist and Psuedo-Joycean, Donald F. Thall 9. Doing Theory, Sylvere Lotringer 10. Blackboxing in Theory, Elie During 11. Critical Inquiry, October, and Historicizing French Theory, Sande Cohen 12. How French Is It?, Andrea Loselle 13. Frenchifying Film Studies, Kriss Ravetto 14. Disappearing Acts, Alison Gingeras 15. From Difference to Blackboxing, Mario Biagioli Appendices 16. Research Historians and French Theory, Sande Cohen 17. Sokal's New Clothes (Intermezzo), Elie During 18. Ecceity, Smash & Grab, The Expanded I and Moment, Chris Krauss