How the French think : an affectionate portrait of an intellectual people / Sudhir Hazareesingh.

By:

Hazareesingh, Sudhir, 1961-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2015Description: xii, 338 pages ; 25 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780465032495 (hardcover)
0465032494 (hardcover)

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DDC classification:

LOC classification:

B 1801 H428h 2015

Contents:

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.

Summary: Traces the story of French intellectual thought to demonstrate how French ideas have fundamentally shaped the modern West, citing the contributions of such figures as Descartes, Rousseau, and Voltaire.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Humanidades	Humanidades (4to. Piso)	B 1801 H428h 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00000128300

Includes index.

Traces the story of French intellectual thought to demonstrate how French ideas have fundamentally shaped the modern West, citing the contributions of such figures as Descartes, Rousseau, and Voltaire.

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