Hazareesingh, Sudhir,  1961- <br/><br/>
How the French think :  an affectionate portrait of an intellectual people / 
Sudhir Hazareesingh 
 - London :   Penguin Books,   2016 
 - 426 pages :   illustrations ;   21 cm  
<br/><br/> Originally published: UK: Allen Lane, 2015. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780241961063 0241961068 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Filosofía francesa 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Francia --Vida intelectual 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>B 1801  / H428h 2016