Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction. The Matter with Transparency 1
6. Part I. Life in the Folds
7. 1. Was Transparency an Optical Problem? 31
8. 2. France, Year Zero 39
9. 3. The World’s Opacity to Consciousness 48
10. 4. The Image of Science and the Limits of Knowledge 64
11. 5. Machines and the Cogito 79
12. 6. From the Total Man to the Other 91
13. Part II. Transparency in Politics: State, Utopia, Grey Zones, 1944–1959
14. 7. What Is Social Transparency? 113
15. 8. Between State and Society, I 130
16. 9. Between State and Society, II 147
17. 10. Alienation, Utopia, and Marxism after 1956 155
18. Part III. Norms, Others, Ethnography, the Symbolic
19. 11. Face, Mask, and Other as Avatars of Selfhood 171
20. 12. The Norm and the Same 199
21. 13. The Third Order, or, The Structural “Symbolic” as Epistemological Interface 226
22. 14. Lévi-Strauss’s World Out of Sync 243
23. 15. The Ethnographer, Cinéma-vérité, and the Disruption of the Natural Order 254
24. Part IV. The Road to 1967 and the Rethinking of Modernity
25. 16. Return to Rousseau 267
26. 17. Return to Descartes 282
27. 18. “Speak Not of Darkness, but of a Somewhat Blurred Light” 300
28. 19. Cybernetic Complexity 315
29. Part V. After 1968
30. 20. The Present Time and the Agent of History before and after May 1968 335
31. 21. The Myth of the Self-Transparency of Society 353
32. 22. Nineteen Eighty-Four 368
33. Abbreviations 383
34. Notes 385
35. Bibliography 449
36. Index 487