How French Theory Lost Its Cool
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The Frenchmen: or, My Life in TheoryBy Emily EakinPenguin Press, 471 pages, $35Jean-Luc Godard called the French generation of the 1960s “the children of Marx and Coca Cola”; for my part, I am in some sense a child of French Theory. When I was a babbling baby, my graduate student mother wrote a poem chronicling my first efforts at speech laced with allusions to the ideas of Jacques Lacan; around that time, my father was finishing up a dissertation on the poetry of John Milton, unde
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