>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?
>
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>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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