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Postcolonial theory is central to many scholarly debates around the world. Some of these debates have become rather sterile and are characterized by a repetitive reworking of old issues, focusing on cultural questions of language and identity in particular. Margaret A. Majumdar investigates the causes of the apparent stagnation of postcolonial theory in some circles, and provides an overview of the divergence between Anglophone and Francophone approaches to the postcolonial. Outlining in particular the contribution of thinkers such as Césaire, Senghor, Memmi, Sartre and Fanon to the worldwide development of anti-imperialist ideas, she offers a critical perspective on the ongoing difficulties of France's relationship with its colonial and postcolonial Others and suggests new lines of thought that are currently emerging in the Francophone world, which are sure to enliven Anglophone discussion and debates.

Postcolonialism --- France --- Colonies --- History. --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- Political Science --- Colonialism --- Jean-Paul Sartre --- Knowledge Unlatched

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Si Sartre a été, dès la publication de La Nausée en 1938, pour les initiés de la scène littéraire parisienne, un auteur qui promettait, ce sont ses deux pièces créées sous l'Occupation qui, avant même la fameuse conférence « L'existentialisme est un humanisme » d'octobre 1945, l'ont catapulté dans le domaine public. Comment et pourquoi ? Malgré un travail archéologique dont les résultats sont publiés depuis une vingtaine d'années, les clichés sont tenaces. Sartre ne s'est-il pas affirmé dans le monde théâtral et littéraire en inventant après coup un activisme subversif pour se justifier d'avoir fait jouer ses amies et d'avoir voulu faire carrière au théâtre à un moment qui ne s'imposait pas ? N'a-t-il pas accepté de soumettre ses pièces à la censure allemande pour se faire acclamer par la critique collaborationniste et les représentants des autorités occupantes dans un théâtre dont le nom juif – Sarah Bernhardt – avait été supprimé par un régime qui pratiquait l'extermination ? La prétendue signification politique de ses pièces, en particulier des Mouches, n'était-elle pas si bien cachée qu'aucun spectateur ne s'en est rendu compte ? Ici comme ailleurs, on ne s'approche guère de la réalité par des jugements entiers. Ceux et celles qui auront la patience de lire les comptes rendus des premiers critiques et les témoignages contemporains réunis dans ce volume verront qu'elle était plus complexe.

Sartre, Jean-Paul, - 1905-1980 - Criticism and interpretation --- Sartre, Jean-Paul, - 1905-1980. - Mouches --- Sartre, Jean-Paul, - 1905-1980. - Huis clos --- History --- Jean-Paul Sartre --- presse --- guerre --- littérature --- littérature française --- occupation allemande --- Sartre, Jean-Paul, - 1905-1980

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Philosophical theology in transition (II / 2) deepens the dialogue with the atheists (in II / 1) in terms of the history of metaphysics. Despite turning away from Hegel, they remain in the space of metaphysics through the development of their own ontologies. The understanding of being that they and their theological opponents presuppose levels the creator-creature relationship and distort it technomorphically. The deconstruction leads to a philosophy of creation as a gift that cannot be thought without being.

Philosophical theology. --- Duns Scotus --- Hegel --- Feuerbach --- Marx --- Sartre --- Metaphysics --- trnscendentals --- ontology --- creation --- existence --- essentia --- Metaphysik --- Transzendentalien --- Ontologie --- Schöpfung --- Existenz --- Essenz --- Atheismus --- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel --- Gott --- Jean-Paul Sartre --- Philosophie --- Sein

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Long considered "the noblest of the senses," vision has increasingly come under critical scrutiny by a wide range of thinkers who question its dominance in Western culture. These critics of vision, especially prominent in twentieth-century France, have challenged its allegedly superior capacity to provide access to the world. They have also criticized its supposed complicity with political and social oppression through the promulgation of spectacle and surveillance. Martin Jay turns to this discourse surrounding vision and explores its often contradictory implications in the work of such influential figures as Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Louis Althusser, Guy Debord, Luce Irigaray, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jacques Derrida. Jay begins with a discussion of the theory of vision from Plato to Descartes, then considers its role in the French Enlightenment before turning to its status in the culture of modernity. From consideration of French Impressionism to analysis of Georges Bataille and the Surrealists, Roland Barthes's writings on photography, and the film theory of Christian Metz, Jay provides lucid and fair-minded accounts of thinkers and ideas widely known for their difficulty. His book examines the myriad links between the interrogation of vision and the pervasive antihumanist, antimodernist, and counter-enlightenment tenor of much recent French thought. Refusing, however, to defend the dominant visual order, he calls instead for a plurality of "scopic regimes." Certain to generate controversy and discussion throughout the humanities and social sciences, Downcast Eyes will consolidate Jay's reputation as one of today's premier cultural and intellectual historians.

Vision. --- Cognition and culture. --- Philosophy, French --- Eyesight --- Seeing --- Sight --- Senses and sensation --- Blindfolds --- Eye --- Physiological optics --- Culture and cognition --- Cognition --- Culture --- Ethnophilosophy --- Ethnopsychology --- Socialization --- France --- Civilization --- Intellectual life --- Cognition and culture --- Vision --- Perception (Philosophy) --- Philosophie française --- Cognition et culture --- Perception (Philosophie) --- History --- Philosophy --- Histoire --- Philosophie --- Civilisation --- Vie intellectuelle --- CDL --- 130.2 --- 20th century. --- 5 senses. --- academic. --- criticism. --- cultural history. --- cultural studies. --- culture. --- descartes. --- disability studies. --- emmanuel levinas. --- enlightenment. --- five senses. --- france. --- french enlightenment. --- global. --- guy debord. --- jacques derrida. --- jacques lacan. --- jean paul sartre. --- louis althusser. --- luce irigaray. --- maurice merleau ponty. --- michel foucault. --- modernity. --- oppression. --- plato. --- political. --- politics. --- scholarly. --- seeing. --- sight. --- social history. --- social studies. --- surveillance. --- theory. --- vision impaired. --- vision. --- western culture. --- western world. --- Perception (philosophie) --- Image (philosophie) --- 1870-1914 --- 20e siècle