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CULTURAL DECLINE, CAPITALIST DETERRITORIALIZATION, AND SOCIAL DEGENERATION IN HOUELLEBECQ’S FICTION

CULTURAL DECLINE, CAPITALIST DETERRITORIALIZATION, AND SOCIAL DEGENERATION IN HOUELLEBECQ’S FICTION I draw on a substantial body of theoretical research (e.g. Abecassis, 2000; Ahearne, 2017; Attridge, 2017; Holzer, 2003; McCann, 2010; Morrey, 2014; Schoolcraft III and Golsan, 2007) on Houellebecq’s image of capitalist globalization, the depressive narrative voice of his novels, and the peripheral status of his male protagonists within the sexual marketplace. Houellebecq’s fiction is consecrated to depicting facets of the apparent degradation of contemporary French society. His novels are filled with multivarious kinds of established culture-shaping discourses that sometimes are linked to entities customarily immersed in the realm of culture. Keywords: cultural decline; capitalist deterritorialization; social degeneration http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Review of Contemporary Philosophy Addleton Academic Publishers

CULTURAL DECLINE, CAPITALIST DETERRITORIALIZATION, AND SOCIAL DEGENERATION IN HOUELLEBECQ’S FICTION

CARMEN PETCU
Review of Contemporary Philosophy , Volume 17 (1): 7 – Jan 1, 2017
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I draw on a substantial body of theoretical research (e.g. Abecassis, 2000; Ahearne, 2017; Attridge, 2017; Holzer, 2003; McCann, 2010; Morrey, 2014; Schoolcraft III and Golsan, 2007) on Houellebecq’s image of capitalist globalization, the depressive narrative voice of his novels, and the peripheral status of his male protagonists within the sexual marketplace. Houellebecq’s fiction is consecrated to depicting facets of the apparent degradation of contemporary French society. His novels are filled with multivarious kinds of established culture-shaping discourses that sometimes are linked to entities customarily immersed in the realm of culture. Keywords: cultural decline; capitalist deterritorialization; social degeneration

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Published: Jan 1, 2017

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