In the past fifty years French intellectual activity has enjoyed remarkable prestige. The vitality of French intellectual debates has attracted a large audience within France and abroad. Ideas and methods developed in France have had an important international influence in many fields of knowledge. While taking account of the rise and decline of major philosophical trends such as existentialism, Marxism, structuralism, poststructuralism and postmodernism, this book deals more broadly with scholarly work in key spheres of the humanities, social sciences and the arts. It examines influential individuals, schools of thought, seminal debates and moments of change in philosophy, literary theory, history, linguistics, social anthropology, sociology, economics, political science, psychoanalysis, feminist thought and film theory. Adopting a variety of different approaches, contributors discuss their chosen areas from the standpoint which they find most appropriate to capturing distinctive and interesting features of French scholarship in the fields concerned.
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CHRISTOPHER FLOOD is Head of European Studies at the University of Surrey. He is author of Pensée politique et imagination historique dans l'oevre de Paul Claudel (1991) and of Political Myth: Theoretical Introduction (1996). He has co-edited Political Ideologies in Contemporary France (1997) and two collections of essays on the politics of French intellectuals. He is co-editor of the European Horizons series for University of Nebraska Press.
NICK HEWLETT is Reader in the School of Languages and Chair of the Centre for European Research at Oxford Brookes University, where he has been since 1990. He is author of Modern French Politics: Analysing Conflict and Consensus since 1945 (1998), Democracy in Modern France (2000), co-author of Contemporary(with Jill Forbes and François Nectoux, 1994 and 2000) and co-editor of Unity and Diversity in the New Europe (1999). He has a number of articles and chapters in journals such as Contemporary French Civilization, Modern and Contemporary France and Politics, and in edited collections.Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.
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Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. Hardcover, ix + 248 pages, index. Ex-university library, marked "withdrawn"; an external stamp on all outer page edges, internal library markings on endapers & pastedowns. Pages are clean with a hint of very gentle age-toning around edges, remain bright, text is unmarked: no writing, no highlighting of any kind. Dust jacket is damaged: untorn but with extensive heavy wrinkling (free of any staining); there is a small area of scuffing on front panel. -- "In the past fifty years French intellectual activity has enjoyed remarkable prestige. The vitality of French intellectual debates has attracted a large audience within France and abroad. Ideas and methods developed in France have had an important international influence in many fields of knowledge. While taking account of the rise and decline of major philosophical trends such as existentialism, Marxism, structuralism, poststructuralism and postmodernism, this book deals more broadly with scholarly work in key spheres of the humanities, social sciences and the arts. It examines influential individuals, schools of thought, seminal debates and moments of change in philosophy, literary theory, history, linguistics, social anthropology, sociology, economics, political science, psychoanalysis, feminist thought and film theory. Adopting a variety of different approaches, contributors discuss their chosen areas from the standpoint which they find most appropriate to capturing distinctive and interesting features of French scholarship in the fields concerned." -- Contents: 1. Structure and Change in Contemporary French Intellectual Life / Christopher Flood and Nick Hewlett; 2. The Grandeur and Twilight of French Philosophical Radicalism / Richard Wolin; 3. It's Time for a Change: Mutations of Presence in Contemporary French Critical Theory / Sean Hand; 4. History Writing: from the Annales to the Institut d'Histoire du Temps Present / Christopher Flood and Hugo Frey; 5. French Linguistics and énonciation: Meanings, Utterances and Representational Gaps / Jacques Durand; 6. Social Anthropological Perspectives in French Intellectual Life / Lieve Spaas; 7. Sociology: Four Players in the Field / Laurence Bell; 8. Between Conformity and Heterodoxy: Market, State and Society in French Economics / Francois Nectoux; 9. Political Science and the Empirical Tradition / Nick Hewlett; 10. An Anti-American In Paris: Lacan and French Freudianism / Grahame Lock; 11. Beyond Theory? The Empowering of Feminist Philosophy / Maire Fedelma Cross; 12. Film Theory and the New Historicism / Jill Forbes. N° de réf. du vendeur 002342
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