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"The impact of these ideas in the US, though considerable, was mostly concentrated in literature departments. Jameson argues that “theory was always a revolt against disciplines”. While that might have been true in France in the 1960s, where the whole gamut of the sciences humaines fell to the structuralists, it wasn’t true in the US in the following two decades.
“The American interest in these people,” Jameson adds, “was certainly part of a ’60s passion for new thinking which had to do with politics as much as anything else.” But, you might ask, what kind of politics? As Todd Gitlin, a leftwing sceptic of the politics of theory, observed mordantly at the time: “While the right has been busy taking the White House, the left has been marching on the English department.”"
https://www.ft.com/content/08139cab-6655-4643-96c2-d8efaf0097b8
#Jameson #USA #CriticalTheory #Marxism #Derrida #Foucault #Barthes
“The American interest in these people,” Jameson adds, “was certainly part of a ’60s passion for new thinking which had to do with politics as much as anything else.” But, you might ask, what kind of politics? As Todd Gitlin, a leftwing sceptic of the politics of theory, observed mordantly at the time: “While the right has been busy taking the White House, the left has been marching on the English department.”"
https://www.ft.com/content/08139cab-6655-4643-96c2-d8efaf0097b8
#Jameson #USA #CriticalTheory #Marxism #Derrida #Foucault #Barthes
The Years of Theory — an examination of postwar French thought
Fredric Jameson’s enthralling survey emphasises context and considers the impact of European ideas on the US culture wars of todayJonathan Derbyshire (Financial Times)
