Now playing · Tue Oct 6 · 6:30pm
The Frenchmen: French Theory from Paris to America
Critic Emily Eakin on The Frenchmen: Or, My Life in Theory, her account of arriving at Harvard in the late 1980s and falling under the spell of Derrida, Foucault, Barthes, Althusser, Deleuze and Lacan. MIT's Bruno Perreau joins her on what those ideas still do in the culture wars.