After the Deluge

Julian Bourg is Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Washington University in St. Louis.

Motivated by a desire to narrate and contextualize the deluge of 'French theory,' After the Deluege showcases recent work by today's brightest scholars of French intellectual history that historicizes key debates, figures, and turning points in the postwar era of French thought.

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Is There Such a Thing as "French Philosophy?" or Why do We Read the French So Badly? Chapter 3 Against Capitalism? French Theory and the Economy after 1945 Chapter 4 The Post-Marx of the Letter Chapter 5 A New Generation of Greek Intellectuals in Postwar France Chapter 6 Kostas Axelos and the World of the Arguments Circle Chapter 7 "Un contradicteur permanent:" The Ideological and Political Itinerary of Daniel Guerin Chapter 8 Guy Hocquenghem and the Cultural Revolution in France after May 1968 Chapter 9 The Myth of Emmanuel Levinas Chapter 10 Raymond Aron: Nationalism and Supranationalism in the Years Following the Second World War Chapter 11 French Intellectuals ant the Repression of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956: The Politics of a Protest Reconsidered Chapter 12 From l'Univers Concentrationnaire to the Jewish Genocide: Pierre Vidal-Naquet and the Treblinka Controversy Chapter 13 French Cultural Policy in Question, 1981-2003 Chapter 14 Religion, Republicanism, and Depoliticization: Two Intellectual Itineraries-Regis Debray and Marcel Gauchet Chapter 15 Afterword: For Intellectual History