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Transparency in Postwar France

Stefanos Geroulanos

2020Stanford University Press eBooks43 citationsDOI

Abstract

This book argues against the widely celebrated utopia of "transparency" by showing, across a panorama of postwar French thought, how attempts to show the perils of transparency in politics, ethics, and knowledge led to major conceptual inventions, many of which we now take for granted.

Topics & Concepts

Transparency (behavior)AccountingBusinessPolitical scienceLawCultural Insights and Digital ImpactsPolitical Theory and InfluencePhilosophical and Theoretical Analysis