The Columbia History of Twentieth-century French ThoughtLawrence D. Kritzman, Brian J. Reilly, M. B. DeBevoise With more than two hundred entries by leading intellectuals in the French- and English-speaking world, this new volume presents the authoritative guide to twentieth-century French thought. Unrivaled in its scope and depth, The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought covers and critiques the intellectual figures, movements, and publications that helped shape and define fields as diverse as history and historiography, psychoanalysis, film, literary theory, cognitive and life sciences, literary criticism, philosophy, and economics. The contributors also discuss developments in French thought on such subjects as pacifism, fashion, gastronomy, technology, and urbanism. More than just a reference volume, The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought offers original and imaginative explorations of a variety of topics. Contributors include prominent French thinkers, many of whom have played an integral role in the development of French thought, and American, British, and Canadian scholars who have been vital in the dissemination of French ideas. The book brings together such pairings as Etienne Balibar on Althusser; Jean Baudrillard on the futures of theory; Judith Butler on Hegel in France; Régis Debray on mediology; Julia Kristeva on Proust; Michael Morange on the life sciences; Paul Ricoeur on ethics; Elisabeth Roudinesco on psychoanalysis; and Roger Shattuck on humanisms. The book is divided into four parts: Movements and Currents (including all the major schools of thought, such as the Annales, deconstruction, Gaullism, négritude, the New Right, psychoanalysis, and structuralism); Themes (ideas that helped define intellectual work in the twentieth century, such as anti-Semitism, the avant-garde, everyday life, film theory, and nationalism); Intellectuals (including critical accounts of the lives and work of such figures as Aron, Barthes, de Beauvoir, Deleuze, Derrida, Foucault, Irigaray, Kristeva, Levinas, and Proust); and Dissemination (covering influential journals, television shows, radio programs, and newspapers). |
Contents
Movements and Currents | 1 |
Action Française Réné Rémond | 7 |
The College of Sociology | 15 |
Créolité Jarrod Hayes | 23 |
Deconstruction Kevin Newmark | 29 |
Fascism Robert Soucy | 35 |
Gauchisme George Ross | 48 |
Histoire des mentalités Roger Chartier | 54 |
Kofman Sarah Mary Lydon | 553 |
Labrousse CamilleErnest Michelle Perrot | 562 |
LacoueLabarthe Philippe | 570 |
Lefort Claude Dick Howard | 578 |
Le Roy Ladurie Emmanuel James R Lehning | 584 |
Lévy BernardHenri Stéphane Spoiden | 594 |
Lyotard JeanFrançois | 601 |
Maritain Jacques Thomas Pavel | 607 |
Négritude Mireille Rosello | 65 |
The New Wave T Jefferson Kline | 73 |
The Absurd and the Death of God | 131 |
The Idea of the AvantGarde | 162 |
Alain Émile Chartier Jeanine Plottel | 379 |
Aragon Louis Pierre Taminiaux | 385 |
Atlan Henri JeanPierre Dupuy | 393 |
Badiou Alain Christian Delacampagne | 401 |
Barthes Roland Julia Kristeva | 407 |
Baudrillard Jean Mike Gane | 415 |
Benda Julien Karlis Racevskis | 422 |
Bergson Henri Suzanne Guerlac | 428 |
Blanchot Maurice Steven Ungar | 436 |
Mauss Marcel Michèle H Richman | 615 |
Monod Jacques Michel Morange | 622 |
Nizan Paul Susan Rubin Suleiman | 628 |
Teilhard de Chardin Pierre Brian J Reilly | 661 |
Todorov Tzvetan James D Le Sueur | 670 |
Virilio Paul Sylvère Lotringer | 676 |
Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales | 683 |
Esprit Michel Winock | 699 |
Institutions Dominique de Courcelles | 706 |
Je suis partout Lawrence D Kritzman | 716 |
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