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The Years of Theory keyword-forty-eighters The seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch SpinozaFredric Jameson introduces here the major themes of French theory: existentialism, structuralism, poststructuralism, semiotics, feminism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism. In a series of accessible lectures, Jameson places this effervescent period of thought in the context of its most significant political conjunctures, including the Liberation of Paris, the Algerian War, the uprisings of May 68, and the creation of the EU. The philosophical debates of the