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Preface
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Dedication
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Utopias are impossible
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Reflexivity by the throat
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Where feminism is not at home
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Men on pedestals
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How I met “French Theory”
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Un mot en français
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Introduction: Utopia in a Shattered World
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Radical philosophy in Saint-Denis
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Utopia and disappointment
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Emancipation and fire
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The problem of left patriarchy
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The problem of a banlieue university
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A note on methods
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The shape of the story
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| Part I: Historical failures |
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Interlude
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In the hallway, at the cafeteria
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1. Radical Philosophy After 1968
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The loss of the revolution
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May 68: The revolution became immediate
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Aimé Césaire on the street: Race and impossible identifications
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Revolutionary philosophy at Vincennes
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Michel Foucault and the birth of ambivalence
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The making of a radical reputation
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Precarious teachers on strike
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Death and historicity
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The revolution wrapped in cellophane
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Interlude
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How I was welcomed
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2. Left Patriarchy
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The reflexivity of patriarchy
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Warmth among men
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Sketch of a history of gender relations
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Women on the margins
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Our aggressors are already inside
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Interlude
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I tried to join a feminist collective
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3. The Neocolonial Bargain
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The spatial fix
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A “xenophilic agora”
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An earthquake in Haiti
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Very happy, very scared
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I had to take care of them somehow
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Care labor and the love of the Department
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Men aren’t disposable
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Bring your own precarity
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| Part II: Utopia in the present |
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Interlude
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The Basilica and the Stade de France
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4. A Banlieue University
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The space of the masses
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Securitarian leftism
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A worn out walk through campus
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A door towards a thing
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Not an unmitigated success
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A student who was trapped
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Graffiti and recognition
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A self-managed space and its demise
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Interlude
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Loneliness
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5. Thought in Motion
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Philosophers in the knowledge society
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Thought goes beyond reality
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Thinking and writing
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Traveling by train
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Thought against world
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Writing after midnight
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Laughter and recognition
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Nomad thought
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Interlude
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The end of the day
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6. Whose Utopia Is This?
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The logics of utopianism
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Philosophers on strike
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A declaration of university independence
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A citation from Socrates
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Male students against hierarchy
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Ultra-masculinist attitudes everywhere
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The logics of disappointment
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Afterward
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Utopia is possible
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Reading theory, reading the university
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The reflexivity of the Other
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Mourning and momentum
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Miscellany
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What is this miscellany?
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Ten Disclaimers
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Brief chronology of the Philosophy Department
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Sociological sketch of the Philosophy Department
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In the courtyard
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A working class philosopher
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Letter from Georges Navet
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Le Doctrinal de Sapience
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A subaltern seminar on the university
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Marxism and the death of philosophy
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How philosophers made a living
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Philosophers on their workspaces
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At a philosophy conference
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An aging professor’s narrative
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The status of undocumented students
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On the archival sources
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Works Cited
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Is ending possible?
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