Anna Förster: Theory in (Non)Translation. On French Theory in the GDR: ifk Lecture

The history of French Theory is routinely depicted as an exclusively Western European and North American phenomenon. Yet in the state-socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe, authors such as Lévi-Strauss, Barthes, Foucault, Deleuze, or Derrida were read, discussed, and translated as avidly as in the ›West‹