The Cambridge history of French thought / edited by Michael Moriarty, University of Cambridge, Jeremy Jennings, King's College London.
| Other author/creator | Moriarty, Michael, 1956- editor. |
| Other author/creator | Jennings, Jeremy, 1952- editor. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019. |
| Copyright Notice | ©2019 |
| Description | xviii, 570 pages ; 24 cm |
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| Partial contents | Part 1. The Middle Ages to 1789 -- Medieval French thought / David Luscombe -- Humanist culture in renaissance france / Ingrid De Smet -- Reformers and dissidents / Neil Kenny -- Rabelais / John O'Brien -- Moral theories: aristotelianism and neostoicism / Ullrich Langer -- Pyrrhonism / John O'Brien -- Ramus / Raphaele Garrod -- Montaigne / John O'Brien -- Demonology / Timothy Chesters -- Political and legal thought / Sophie E. B. Nicholls -- Linguistic and literary thought: mid-sixteenth to mid-seventeenth centuries / John D. Lyons -- French scholastics in the seventeenth century / Roger Ariew -- Sceptics and freethinkers / Isabelle Moreau -- Descartes / Gary Hatfield -- Augustinianism / Michael Moriarty -- Seventeenth-century Catholic spirituality / Richard Parish -- Blaise pascal / Emma Gilby -- Cartesianism / Steven Nadler -- Pierre Bayle / Ruth Whelan -- Ethical, political, and social thought / Michael Moriarty -- Aesthetics: ancients and moderns / Richard Scholar -- The querelle des femmes / Rebecca Wilkin -- The Enlightenment / Jenny Mander -- Voltaire / John Leigh -- Diderot / Marian Hobson -- Rousseau / Michael Moriarty -- Philosophy and religion: deism, atheism, materialism / Caroline Warman -- Enlightenment political and social thought / A.M.R De Dijn -- The continent of history / David Mccallam -- Enlightenment aesthetic thought / Kate E. Tunstall -- The enlightenment and gender / Judith Still -- Colonialism and slavery / Jenny Mander |
| Partial contents | Part 2. From 1789 to the present day -- French thought on the eve of the revolution and after / Jeremy Jennings -- Political thought in the nineteenth century / Jeremy Jennings -- The Paris School of liberal political economy / David Hart -- Romanticism / Alison Finch -- Victor Cousin and eclecticism / Benjamin Bacle -- Nineteenth-century religious thought / Robert Priest -- Auguste Comte and positivism / Mary Pickering -- Race and empire in ninteenth-century France / Emmanuelle Saada -- Philosophy: epistemological debates and bergson / Daniela S. Barberis -- Nation and nationalism / Michael Sutton -- Twentieth-century French Catholic thought / Michael Sutton -- Writing modern French history / Philip Whalen -- Sartre and the art of living with paradox / Thomas R. Flynn -- Marxism versus humanism / Knox Peden -- French feminist thought in the twentieth century / Diana Holmes -- Anticolonialism / Emile Chabal -- The new liberalism / Daniel J. Mahoney -- Michel Foucault / Michael C. Behrent -- Jacques Derrida and deconstruction / Paul Rekret -- Sociology / Daniela J. Barberis -- Literary theory / Patrick Ffrench -- Conclusion: the end of French thought? / Jeremy Jennings. |
| Summary | French thinkers have revolutionized European thought about knowledge, religion, politics, and society. Delivering a comprehensive history of thought in France from the Middle Ages to the present, this book follows themes and developments of thought across the centuries. It provides readers with studies of both systematic thinkers and those who operate less systematically, through essays or fragments, and places them all in their many contexts. Informed by up-to-date research, these accessible chapters are written by prominent experts in their fields who investigate key concepts in non-technical language. Chapters feature treatments of specific thinkers as individuals including Voltaire, Rousseau, Descartes and Derrida, but also more general movements and schools of thought from humanism to liberalism, via the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Marxism, and feminism. Furthermore, the influence of gender, race, empire and slavery are investigated to offer a broad and fulfilling account of French thought throughout the ages. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| LCCN | 2018043273 |
| ISBN | 9781107163676 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1107163676 hardcover |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | Reference Stacks | DC33 .C32 2019 | ✔ Available |