This book returns to a time and place when the concept of Transparency was met with deep suspicion.
Associating it with the prying eyes of totalitarian g.
Between 1945 and 1985, academics, artists, revolutionaries, and state functionaries spoke of Transparency in pejorative terms.
It offers a panorama of Postwar French thought where 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.
This book returns to a time and place when the concept of Transparency was met with deep suspicion