Sentimental Empiricism: Politics, Philosophy, and Criticism in Postwar France

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Epigraph
Introduction
	The Project
	A Minor Mode of Critical Thinking
	Some Adjacent Precursors
	Chapter Summaries
Part I. Missed Understandings
	1. Reading Political Theory in Postwar America and Postwar France
		Political Literarity in Postwar America
			Siren Songs
			A Peculiarly American Theoretical Dispositif
			The Operant
			A Science of and for the State
		Political Literarity in Postwar France
			Reading Texts Closely
			The Programme de l’Agrégation
		Political Relations
		Catholic Substances
		Engines, Turbines, Factories and Washing Machines
		Conclusion: Political Theory, Reading, and Mésentente
	2. Mimesis, the explication de texte, and State Thinking
		The Institution of “le même”
		On the 1599 Ratio Studiorum
		Gustave Lanson and the explication de texte
		Conclusion
Part II. Dispositionalities
	3. Jean Wahl, Empirico-Criticism, and the Concrete
		Jean Wahl: The Interwar Years
		Vers le concret
		Conclusion
	4. Simone de Beauvoir and the Elementary Structures of Patriarchy
		Simone de Beauvoir:  A Political Thinker
		Patriarchy and the Indirect Passions
		The Sentimental Powers of Arrangement
		The Indirect Passion of Patriarchy
		Conclusion
	5. More than a Unity: Gilbert Simondon’s Sentimental Empiricism
		The Sentimental Empiricism of Gilbert Simondon
		A Sentimental Empiricist Philosophy of Technical Objects
	6. Gilles Deleuze: Displacing Reflection
		Deleuze, Reader of Hume
		Inversions
	7. Michel Foucault and the Political Ontology of the Dispositif
		A Political Morphology of the Dispositif
		A Political Aesthetics of Foucault’s Dispositif
		Conclusion
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
	Introduction
	1. Reading Political Theory in Postwar America and Postwar France
	2. Mimesis, the explication de texte, and State Thinking
	3. Jean Wahl, Empirico-Criticism, and the Concrete
	4. Simone de Beauvoir and the Elementary Structures of Patriarchy
	5. More than a Unity: Gilbert Simondon’s Sentimental Empiricism
	6. Gilles Deleuze: Displacing Reflection
	7. Michel Foucault and the Political Ontology of the Dispositif
	Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
Author