EPISODE · Sep 4, 2008 · 29 MIN
An American Bookworm in Paris, Part I
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Sylvia Whitman, of Shakespeare and Company, a bookstore popular with Americans in Paris Francois Cusset French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States (University of Minnesota Press) Our tour begins at Shakespeare and Company, a bookstore with a long tradition of helping American writers in Paris. Then, it's on to François Cusset and how French Theory found its bastion and stronghold in American Universities.
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