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urteek markatu dezakete, enfatikoki bezain arbitrarioki, Frantziako historia intelektualean garai baten hasiera eta amaiera, egun, atzera begiratuz, «teoriaren aroa» dei genezakeena: pentsamendua, politika eta literatura elkar ezegonkortzera heldu zireneko krisi aroa. Badira hogeita hamar urte eferbeszentziazko garai hura amaitu zela, eta oraindik ere literatura ulertzeko moduan erro bizienetako bat izaten jarraitzen du.
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The publication of Roland Barthes' first book, Le degré zéro de l’écriture, reached its sixtieth anniversary in 2013; in 2014, it will be thirty years from Michel Foucault's passing. As arbitrary as they are resounding, these two dates, 1953 and 1984, can frame the beginning and the end of a period of crisis in French intellectual history in which thought, politics, and literature unsettled each other, a period that we may term, in retrospect, 'the age of theory'. By now, thirty years after the closing of that period of effervescence, it stands as a living root of our present understanding of literature. This monograph aims at inquiring how that thinking has been passed on to us, and accordingly, what connects us to it, and what separates us from it. [+]
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