 | Ph.D. Joint IFS/French Literature
Field of Study: 20th century intellectual and cultural history; 19th and 20th century French literature; critical theory; sociology of literature.
Research: Georgiana Perlea is a PhD student in French Literature and French Studies. She holds a Bachelor of Philology diploma from the University of Bucharest and an MA degree from NYU. Her thesis is a project of intellectual history attempting to illuminate a peculiarly French transition from one major social theory (Marx) to another (Weber) as it follows a segment of the anti-Communist Left in its trajectory from the eclectic, revisionist Marxism ignited by the events of 1956, to the osmosis, in the early seventies, with an Aronian liberal trend inside the "antitotalitarian front" borne out of Solzhenitsyn's revelations. The study centers on Cornelius Castoriadis, Edgar Morin and Boris Souvarine, founders and animators of "Socialisme ou Barbarie", "Arguments" and "Le contrat social" respectively.
Other research interests include post-1945 European history, the avant-garde manifesto as a genre, Proust, 19th century political memoirs, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, fascism and literature in interwar France.
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