What the French Have to Say about the History of Technology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4753408 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Miriam R Levin (0000-0001-5754-6715, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 158 |
| Publication date | 1996-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Technology and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-165X • E-ISSN: 1097-3729 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tech.1996.0115 |
| OpenAlex | W4367471491 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
Paris: structuralism, poststructuralism, the work of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Jean Baudrillard.' In my work, I have been led to do some of the same kind of questioning, with the twist that, rather than exploring why Englishspeaking historians of technology anxiously try to keep up with the French, I have to ask why-relatively speaking-non-French practitioners of our discipline seem to pay so little attention to France and French historians of technology in our research and teaching.2 Since the first Ph.D. program in the history of technology was established in France in 1985, the field has grown enormously, and there is now ample reason to take the French seriously.3 In this article, I first want to touch on the sources of this oversight and then to argue why the French are well worth our attention, addressing the Middle Ages to the present. While my observations stem from my own experience as a historian of Europe working in the United States, they may have some relevance for other scholars in a field that tends to circumscribe itself within national boundaries
Ancient history · Art history · History of technology · Media studies · Michel foucault · Political science · Politics · Relevance (law) · Sociology · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · History of Science and Medicine · Law
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |