Currents in contemporary French intellectual life / edited by Christopher Flood, Nick Hewlett.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Flood, Christopher.

Hewlett, Nick.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

France--Intellectual life--20th century.

France.

Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

ix, 248 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Summary:

In the last fifty years French intellectual activity has enjoyed remarkable prestige and international influence. 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.

Contents:

1 Structure and Change in Contemporary French Intellectual Life / Christopher Flood, Nick Hewlett 1

2 The Grandeur and Twilight of French Philosophical Radicalism / Richard Wolin 23

3 It's Time for a Change: Mutations of Presence in Contemporary French Critical Theory / Sean Hand 39

4 History Writing: from the Annales to the Institut d'Histoire du Temps Present / Christopher Flood, Hugo Frey 56

5 French Linguistics and Enonciation: Meanings, Utterances and Representational Gaps / Jacques Durand 76

6 Social Anthropological Perspectives in French Intellectual Life / Lieve Spaas 96

7 Sociology: Four Players in the Field / Laurence Bell 114

8 Between Conformity and Heterodoxy: Market, State and Society in French Economics / Francois Nectoux 135

9 Political Science and the Empirical Tradition / Nick Hewlett 159

10 An Anti-American in Paris: Lacan and French Freudianism / Grahame Lock 179

11 Beyond Theory? The Empowering of Feminist Philosophy / Maire Fedelma Cross 210

12 Film Theory and the New Historicism / Jill Forbes 227.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0312232306

OCLC:

43095764