What's Left?

Rubenstein, Diane (Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

ISBN 10: 0299125645 / ISBN 13: 9780299125646

Published by University of Wisconsin Press, 1991

About this Item

The author connects pedagogical and literary institutions to issues of writing, political position and power. She suggests that the leftist caricature of the Ecole Normale Superieure, the training ground for French intellectuals, is inaccurate because it represses the role of writing. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JN; JPF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 322. . 1992. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: What's Left?
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0299125645
• ISBN 13: 9780299125646
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

A political history of writing in France during the interwar period and under the Occupation. Rubinstein argues that the prevalent leftist depiction of the ENS&;the training ground par excellence of the French intellectual&;is symptomatically inaccurate in its repression of the role of writing in the construction of the political subject. Through a deconstructive reading of the ENS as text, Rubinstein resituates the ENS's intellectual discourse within the literary politics of the right. Normalien discourse is seen to articulate analogous concepts of superiority, hierarchy, and exclusion. This twinning of principles of political and textual authority is developed through analyses of publishing networks of the thirties and the post-war trial sentencing of intellectuals.

About the Author

Diane Rubenstein was assistant professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.