The Mediocracy: French Philosophy Since the Mid-1970s autobiographies Their children grow up learning

Their children grow up learning more from their televisions than from their teachers

compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure

A dazzling collection of short fiction

and mother in her late thirties

In 1950s Paris

The Mediocracy: French Philosophy Since the Mid-1970s autobiographies Their children grow up learningAuthor Contributor(s): Lecourt, Dominique; Elliott, Gregory Publisher: Verso Date: 11 17 2002 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW Generating great controversy on its publication in France, The Mediocracy argues that a veritable counter revolution in intellectual life has seen the period of the master thinkers of the 1960s succeeded by an era of generalized mediocrity. Where Althusser or Lacan, Foucault or Derrida once held centre stage, today