Jacques Derrida. Jacques Lacan. Luce Irigaray. Roland Barthes. Michel Foucault. Julia Kristeva. Gilles Deleuze. The 1960s saw a generation of French thinkers come of age in what was perhaps one of the greatest intellectual flowerings in history. Hélène Cixous, one of their number, would label this generation “the incorruptibles” and their influence, for better or worse, would flow outwards from philosophy departments into literature, film, gender studies, postcolonial studies and popular culture.
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