Ideas from France: The Legacy of French Theory, 1985, SC, VG.

Appignanesi, Lisa, et al. London: Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), 1985.

English, Very Good, 4to, 11 1/2" x 8 1/4", [3] 48 pp.

ISBN: 0905263502

Black perfect bound, blue and white lettering to front panel, white lettering to back panel and spine, creases and wear to spine, some shelf wear to front and back panels, small crease to upper fore-edge affecting text block to pg.12, otherwise, clean, tightly bound, and unmarked throughout. [3] 48 pp., black-and-white images and illustrations. Includes Editor's Note by Lisa Appignanesi, four sections "The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Theory," "The Archeology of Michel Foucault," "The Rise and Fall of Structural Marxism," and "The Uses of History." Includes essays by Michele Barrett, Ted Benton, Malcolm Bradbury, Peter Burke, Christian Descamps, Peter Dews, Terry Eagleton, John Forrester, Bob Jessop, Cora Kaplan, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Jacques Roubaud, Raphael Samuel, Alan Sheridan, Gareth Stedman Jones, and Jeffery Weeks. From the Editor's Note: "French philosophers know they will never be done with the questions, 'what is to be done, to be known, to be hoped?' Today they give their answers with the force of fictions of our times. In doing so, the philosophers borrow as much from great novelists and painters as from physicists and mathematicians. And that is perhaps why some philosophical works have the force of conviction of certain works of art."