How the French think : an affectionate portrait of an intellectual people / Sudhir Hazareesingh.
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TextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2015Description: xii, 338 pages ; 25 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780465032495 (hardcover)
- 0465032494 (hardcover)
- 194
- B 1801 H428h 2015
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| B 1649 P831p 1985 Popper selections / | B 1649 R961e 1980 Ensayos filosóficos / | B 1649 R961o 1929 Our knowledge of the external world / | B 1801 H428h 2015 How the French think : an affectionate portrait of an intellectual people / | B 1801 H428h 2016 How the French think : an affectionate portrait of an intellectual people / | B 1802 V657p 2000 La philosophie francaise / | B 1805 M828 2008 Moralistas franceses : máximas, pensamientos y caracteres / |
Includes index.
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.
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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