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French
Theory is due for an insider critique, and in Requiem for French Theory,
Aymeric Monville and Gabriel Rockhill do just that. Drawing upon decades of
studying French philosophy in Paris, they build upon the best Marxist
criticisms of postmodernism, while further developing them by situating
postmodern theory within the global political economy of knowledge and
U.S.-driven intellectual imperialism. The result is a broad dialogue on
topics ranging from international class struggle and the dissemination of
ideology, to fascism, identity politics, dialectics, actually existing
socialism, and among others.
Requiem for French Theory soundly criticizes this tradition's chameleonic
ideological permutations under new names, such as postcolonial thought,
decolonial theory, new materialism, and other trendsetting discourses. But it
also reveals how these theoretical developments are all part of a broader
anticommunist cultural front. Most importantly, Monville and Rockhill develop
the positive project of anti-imperialist Marxism as the ultimate antidote to
French theoretical sophistry. Far from indulging in the political defeatism
characteristic of the Western Marxist critiques of postmodernism, this
intellectual exchange issues a clarion call for revitalizing revolutionary
theory and putting it into practice.
