How the French Think: An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People 9780465032495, 0465032494, 978-0-465-06166-2
Traces the story of French intellectual thought to demonstrate how French ideas have fundamentally shaped the modern Wes
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English Pages 338 Year 2015
Table of contents :
Content: A yearning towards universality --
The skull of Descartes --
Darkness and light --
Landscapes of Utopia --
The ideals of science --
To the left, and to the right --
The sum of their parts --
Interlude: new paths to the present --
Freedom and domination --
Writing for everybody --
The end of history --
The closing of the French mind --
Anxiety and optimism.
