The Poison and the Cure the Life and Afterlife of French Theory

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Eakin, being concerned with “America’s theory craze,” writes about Lévi-Strauss, Althusser, Lacan, Gilles Deleuze, and the Belgian-born literary critic Paul de Man, whereas Erdur, exploring the formative impact of colonial experiences on postwar French thinkers, offers a different supporting cast, including Pierre Bourdieu, Jean-François Lyotard, and Hélène Cixous. Theory was a favored target of conservative philosophers in polemical mode. Theory could seem to transgress everything without transforming anything.

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