
What's Left?
The Ecole Normale Superieure and the Right
University of Wisconsin Press
Published on 30. January 1991
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-299-12564-6 (ISBN)
Description
In this study, the author connects pedagogical and literary institutions to issues of writing, political position and power. She suggests that the leftist caricature of the Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS), the training ground for French intellectuals, is inaccurate because it represses the role of writing. By deconstructing the ENS as one would a text, she garners from the writing of the ""normaliens"" a picture of an institution that reinforces superiority, exclusivity and hierarchy. Towards the end of the book, Rubenstein relates the irony of the post-World War II trials of ""normaliens"" in which authors become victims of their own writing. She also turns the tables on the ENS, calling upon its own writings to reveal its rightist ideological positions.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Wisconsin
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
320 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-299-12564-6 (9780299125646)
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Person
Diane Rubenstein was assistant professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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