Les Années de bataille (French Edition)

Peter Lang, http: Yet one problem with the rapid importation of these texts, often read in isolation and shorn of their original context, is that the political, cultural and intellectual stakes in France, within which they were precise interventions, are often lost. An exploration of the revues in which these thinkers first published is a good way to restore the historical conjuncture and the complexity of these debates, and much work has been done on the likes of Tel Quel, Les Temps modernes and Critique to better illuminate the post-war period.

The revue Lignes founded in , a marginal yet important milieu of contemporary thinkers, can be seen as the intellectual successor to the likes of Tel Quel and Critique, and is therefore an apt object of study to restore the material density to otherwise abstract debates. Northwestern University Press, Due to space limitations, however, the early decades of their work and reception will be covered very briefly, to make room for the more complex intellectual debates which follow from the s onwards.

The vacillation of the League of Nations in the face of rising fascist threats in Germany, Italy and Spain led many to despair: The key 3 For a more detailed account, see the first two chapters my forthcoming doctoral thesis.

Editions Champ Vallon, Rosalind Kraus, October, 55 , 3—22 for more on this question. Presses universitaires de Lyon, , The violence of these texts remains staggering to read, and especially shocking is the occasional anti-Semitism which would cast a cloud over his subsequent reception in the s. The key issue for Blanchot scholarship is whether this participation with the extreme right in the s contaminates his post-war writing: Blanchot was already undergoing a process of self-scrutiny from , and his post-war political engagements owe 11 Leslie Hill, Blanchot: Routledge, , Both Bataille and Blanchot agreed that literature should not be put directly into the service of politics: Writing came first, above all else, and in this sense both authors seemed radically out of step with their epoch in the post-war period.

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With Sartre, it is never quite explicit who or what is engaged — is it the work itself, or the author with his political convictions, or a combination of the two? Via Bataille and Blanchot, a separation occurs between text and author — much more radically in Blanchot than Bataille — which influenced the rise of structuralism and textual theories to come. The s — The Time of Theory Bataille died in , but this decade would begin to mark his post-war notoriety, aided by the rise of what is now known as French theory.

Verso, , This is a question often not investigated as thoroughly as it should be later on by those wanting to delegitimize French theory via the politics of Bataille and Blanchot, who they consider as so central to the later critical project that any delegitimation of them would bring down the entire card-house of French theory.

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As this chapter wishes to go on to demonstrate, reading Bataille and Blanchot through the twentieth century certainly highlights their importance as figures, but the way they are mobilized often has more to do with the current political and intellectual climate than with the actual content of their thought.

However, they later came to alienate Derrida, Foucault and Blanchot through their political manipulation of the now-deceased Bataille who, other than in the intense period of the s, had been generally pessimistic regarding positive political action, and instead focused on a personal, sovereign revolt against bourgeois norms. Against the current Zhadnovian line of the French Communist Party, Mascolo separated art from politics, attesting that both could be revolutionary, but that these two spheres moved at different speeds, and the two struggles were tangentially related.

This position is close to the accord between Breton and Trotsky, in which all art was agreed to be emancipatory as it intrinsically liberated expression, even if the content of the work was not itself explicitly political. Bataille was privileged as a thinker of transgressions that could be deployed dialectically to subvert the current order and inaugurate a cultural revolution — a position Bataille himself would have fundamentally refused.

For a while, terroristically complex and experimental literary and theoretical texts were seen by Philippe Sollers and Julia Kristeva as the intellectual transgressions that could provoke a revolutionary consciousness. Foucault and Blanchot both wrote critiques of attempts to dialecticize cultural transgression into a revolutionary program: Barthes, Foucault, Blanchot and Derrida had all left the Critique editorial board by , and the journal would never again be at the cutting edge of French thought.

Gallimard, , and Bernard Barrault, , Pierre Nora formed the influential revue Le Debat in with the 27 For the prevalence of an attitude of resistance, see Jeffrey T.

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Nealon, Foucault beyond Foucault: Power and Its Intensifications Since California: Stanford University Press, , On the need to boost consumption via subcultural produce, see, for example, Bernard Stiegler, Taking Care of Youth and the Generations, trans. See also Lignes 18 devoted to Pasolini. The Antitotalitarian Moment of the s New York: This initially hardly concerned the legacies of Bataille and Blanchot directly, but the shifts in the intellectual landscape, marginalizing the French theory generation, provided the terrain for those aggravated by their continued prominence to launch a more frontal assault.

Intellectual fascism was suspected everywhere, and so the spotlight began to be cast on other thinkers in this intellectual lineage who held dubious political commitments in the s, Bataille and Blanchot coming high on the list. Bernard Grasset, , Christopher Green, Art in France, Stephen Kern, The culture of time and space, , Cambridge, Mass. Timothy Mathews, Reading Apollinaire: Peter Read, Picasso et Apollinaire: Stefan Themerson, Apollinaire's lyrical ideograms , London, Gaberbocchus, Roger Cardinal, Breton, Nadja.

Philippe Douet, Breton, Nadja: Willard Bohn, The rise of Surrealism: Ruth Brandon, Surreal lives: Mary Ann Caws, The surrealist look: Hal Foster, Compulsive beauty , Cambridge, Mass.

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