Much of what we think of as being "French theory" today is the result of the kind of literary criticism that was carried out in prestigious universities like Yale during the 1980s.Academicians and graduate students who were interested in Continental political philosophy found in french theories the necessary keys they needed to critique contemporary, American capitalist society.
Some of us attempted to bring these strains of French thought together, either from the literary or from the political end. And there were good reasons for such attempts, even if at times the actual results were less than satisfactory.
