Tel Quel

Tel Quel (French "as is ") is a literary-critical movement of the 1960s and 1970s by the same magazine.

Founded in 1960 by Philippe Sollers, Jean- springs and Hallier Jean -Pierre Faye, won the magazine with literary criticism - modern tread quickly in importance. Significant terms of post-structuralism took here in publications of Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Gérard Genette, Julia Kristeva and Others shape.

The authors of Tel Quel approached the language and sign systems in general in a way that " does not restrict expression and sense of plurality, but is this just, as a liberation of thought and life without an exemption of language" their ( Kuhn ) was not feasible. The " social transformation ", it formulated Julia Kristeva in the revolution of poetic language is " language can not be separated " from the. The questions of literary practice emphasizes Kristeva that they " paid to a political horizon " must be able, where " the poetry ... hits the foundation of what holds the order: the logic of the language system and the state " principle. Thus, the " poetic language in the social order and against them ...: a last resort, to edit or to subvert. "

The " Kristeva group " and Tel Quel it comes to the analysis of the prevailing forms of thought. The despotism of the ruling language and its Rigorositiät to define the meaning is disclosed. Here, the program of the magazine over the years between apolitical aestheticism and Communist Party takeover moves. In the language- critical texts of Tel Quel methods and goals of deconstruction are emerging.

In 1982, the magazine for the last time. Since then, the successor L' Infini appears.

Bibliography

• Tel Quel: littérature, philosophy, science politique. Paris: Ed. du Seuil, 1960 - 1982.
• L' Infini: littérature, philosophy, art, science, politique / publ. avec le concours du Centre National des Lettres. Paris: Gallimard, 1983.