School of the South : The Colonial Roots of French Theory - Onur Erdur no discount probing and clairvoyant in matters

probing and clairvoyant in matters of the heart

I couldn't put it down'Genevieve Gornichec

a darker presence is growing in power in the Underworld and the boundaries between the physical world and the one beyond continue to grow thinner

this entertaining and insightful book is suffused with the heady glamour and excess of 90s Cool Britannia

he feels something like a soul mate

School of the South : The Colonial Roots of French Theory - Onur Erdur no discount probing and clairvoyant in mattersMichel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Hlne Cixous, Jean Franois Lyotard, tienne Balibar, Jacques Rancire: these were among the luminaries of France's golden age of theory from the 1960s to the 1990s. What is less well known is that all of these thinkers spent time in North Africa and their ideas were shaped by their encounters with French colonialism. In his remarkable history of ideas in eight portraits, Onur Erdur