{"product_id":"9781685901493","title":"Requiem for French Theory : Transatlantic Funeral Dirge in a Marxist Key - Jennifer Ponce de Leon","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrench  Theory is due for an insider critique, and in Requiem for French Theory,  Aymeric Monville and Gabriel Rockhill do just that. Drawing upon decades of  studying French philosophy in Paris, they build upon the best Marxist  criticisms of postmodernism, while further developing them by situating  postmodern theory within the global political economy of knowledge and  U.S.-driven intellectual imperialism. The result is a broad dialogue on  topics ranging from international class struggle and the dissemination of  ideology, to fascism, identity politics, dialectics, actually existing  socialism, and among others.           Requiem for French Theory soundly criticizes this tradition's chameleonic  ideological permutations under new names, such as postcolonial thought,  decolonial theory, new materialism, and other trendsetting discourses. But it  also reveals how these theoretical developments are all part of a broader  anticommunist cultural front. Most importantly, Monville and Rockhill develop  the positive project of anti-imperialist Marxism as the ultimate antidote to  French theoretical sophistry. Far from indulging in the political defeatism  characteristic of the Western Marxist critiques of postmodernism, this  intellectual exchange issues a clarion call for revitalizing revolutionary  theory and putting it into practice.�\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jennifer Ponce de Leon","offers":[{"title":"168 pages \/ 06\/04\/2026 \/ Political science \u0026 theory","offer_id":56970317103479,"sku":"9781685901493","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781685901493","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}