French ResistanceAn original look at the intellectual issues that divideand unitethese two republics. Vive la diffrence? Almost as soon as Foucault, Derrida, and Lacan began to captivate American academics, naysayers began to bemoan the effects of French theory on American thought. French critics, on the other hand, have made short shrift of what passes for intellectual life in America. French Resistance gets to the heartand the historyof these vexed French American