French Thought and Literary Theory in the UK

ISBN-13: 9781032087436 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 194 str.

Irving Goh

Opis

This collection presents a counter-history or counter-genealogy of the globalization of French thought from the point of view of scholars working in the UK, tracing the reception and development of French thought in Anglophone worlds from the late 70s to the present.

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O autorze

Irving Goh received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Cornell University. In 2015, the Royal Society and the British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences awarded him the Newton International Fellowship in the Department of French at the University of Cambridge for his work on "prepositional existence" in French thought. That work now appears as L'existence prépositionnelle, published by Galilée in 2019. He is also the author of The Reject: Community, Politics, and Religion after the Subject (Fordham UP, 2014), which won the MLA 23rd Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies. He is currently President's Assistant Professor of Literature at the National University of Singapore.