Transparency in Postwar France: A Critical History of the Present

This book argues against the widely celebrated utopia of "transparency" by showing, across a panorama of postwar French thought, how attempts to show the perils of transparency in politics, ethics, and knowledge led to major conceptual inventions, many of which we now take for granted.

Author: Stefanos Geroulanos
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 09/05/2017
Pages: 520
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.85lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780804799744

About the Author
Stefanos Geroulanos is Associate Professor of European History and Director of the Center for International Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences at New York University. He is the author of An Atheism that Is Not Humanist Emerges in French Thought (Stanford, 2010).