French resistance : the French-American culture wars / Jean-Philippe Mathy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mathy, Jean-Philippe.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics and culture.

France--Intellectual life--American influences.

France.

United States--Intellectual life--French influences.

United States.

United States--Relations--France.

France--Relations--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 211 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Consistently illuminating and often polemical, French Resistance focuses on recent transatlantic debates over critical theory, national identity, and multiculturalism.orStarting from well-publicized controversies such as the bicentennial of the French Revolution, the 1989 Affair of the Veil, or the more recent Sokal Affair, Jean-Philippe Mathy looks at how French and American national traditions have represented the other, and how different conceptions of liberalism, democratic pluralism, and republicanism figure in these representations.

Contents:

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 French Theory in the United States; 2 The French Revolution at Two Hundred: The Bicentennial and the Return of Rights-Liberalism; 3 Back to la République: French Intellectuals after Communism; 4 Cultural Studies, Postcolonialism, and the French National Idea; 5 Multiculturalism and Its Discontents; CONCLUSION; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-206) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9075-8

OCLC:

476094824