Continental Theory Buffalo: Transatlantic Crossroads of a Critical Insurrection

This book is a collaborative act of humanistic renewal that builds on the transcontinental legacy of May 1968 to offer insightful readings of the cultural (d)evolution of the last fifty years. The volume contributors revisit, reclaim and reassess the "revolutionary" legacy of May 1968 in light of the urgency of the present and the future. Their essays are effective illustrations of the potential of such interpretive traditions as philosophy, literature and cultural criticism to run interference with (and offer alternatives to) the instrumentalist logic and predatory structures that are reducing the world to a collection of quantifiable and tradeable resources. The book will be of interest to cultural historians and theorists, media studies scholars, political scientists, and students of French and Francophone literature and culture on both sides of the Atlantic.

Edited by David R. Castillo, Jean-Jacques Thomas, and Ewa Płonowska Ziarek

Published by SUNY Press

Paperback : 9781438486444, 266 pages, December 2021
Hardcover : 9781438486451, 266 pages, December 2021