Title Spatial ecologies : urban sites, state and world-space in French cultural theory / Verena Andermatt Conley

Published Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 171 pages) Series Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 21 Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 21. Contents Introduction: Space as a Critical Concept -- 1. Henri Lefebvre: Lived Spaces -- 2. Michel de Certeau: Anthropological Spaces -- 3. Jean Baudrillard: Media Places -- 4. Marc Augé: Non-Places -- 5. Paul Virilio: Speed Space -- 6. Deleuze and Guattari: Space and Becoming -- 7. Bruno Latour: Common Spaces -- 8. Etienne Balibar: Spatial Fictions -- Conclusion: Future Spaces -- Bibliography -- Index Summary 880-01 This study takes a new look at the 'spatial turn' in French cultural and critical theory since 1968. The author examines how Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, Jean Baudrillard, Marc Auge, Paul Virilio, Bruno Latour and Etienne Balibar reconsider the experience of space in the midst of considerable political and economic turmoil. The book considers why French critical theorists turned away from questions of time and looked instead toward questions of space. It asks what writing about space can tell us about life in late capitalism 880-01/(Q Spatial Ecologies takes a new look at the spatial turnin French cultural and critical theory since 1968. Verena Andermatt Conley examines how Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, Jean Baudrillard, Marc Aug, ⁺ў Paul Virilio, Bruno Latour and Etienne Balibar reconsider the experience of space in the midst of considerable political and economic turmoil. The book considers why French critical theorists turned away from questions of time and looked instead toward questions of space. It asks what writing about space can tell us about life in late capitalism. Conley links this question to the problematic of habitality, taking us back to Heidegger and showing how it informs much of French theory. Building on the author's acclaimed earlier study Ecopolitics, Spatial Ecologies argues, through the voices of the authors taken up the eight chapters, for recognition of the virtue of spatial theory and its pragmatic applications in the global milieu. It will be required reading for scholars of literary and cultural theory, and twentieth- and twenty-first century French culture Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject French literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc Criticism -- France -- History -- 20th century LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French. Criticism Kulturtheorie Spatial turn Stadtforschung Regionalforschung France Frankreich Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781846317217 1846317215 9781781387955 1781387958

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