Mike,
The results of that conference were published in a book called THE
STRUCTURALIST CONTROVERSY,if my own memory serves me correctly.
Bill
 
On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Mike Frank wrote:
 
> >Mike Frank <[log in to unmask]> writes:
>
> >>now, as is all too well known, everything that's happened in criticism since
> >>may of 1968 has aimed at destroying not only all foundations but the very
> >>notion of a foundation as the authoritative source of anything
> >
> >Pardon me, but I may have come in late. Pray tell, what exactly happened in
> >May of 1968 that has to do with with criticism? Lots of things happened in
> >'68, most of them unpleasant. To what is Mr Frank referring to? Bobby
> >Kennedy's assassination? (Wasn't that in June?) The French student
> >revolution? What?
> >
> >____________________________________________________________
> >ALAN BELL                             Santa Rosa, California
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> >
>
>
> sorry to be so enigmatic . . . i foolishly took it for granted that this jokey
> reference would be pretty self-explanatory
>
> but in fact alan bell got it quite right . . . the french student revolution
> has come to be seen, if not as the actual source of many new directions in
> contemporary thought, at least as a convenient marker of the intellectual
> revolution in which the althusserian, derridian, lacanian, foucaludian,
> barthesian, de manian post struturalist, deconstrnctionist, semiotic armies
> stormed the barricades of conventional thought
>
> if i'm not mistaken it was at just about the same time that johns hopkins
> sponsored a conference that marked the first significant appearance of many
 new
> french intellectuals on the american [academic] scene . . . so from this side
> of the atlantic that date serves as a useful watershed in intellectual and
> cultural history  [but i speak here only from unreliable memory and welcome
 any
> relevant information that i've left out or gotten wrong]
>
> mike frank
>
>
>
> mike frank
>
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