TY - GEN AU - Hazareesingh,Sudhir TI - How the French think: an affectionate portrait of an intellectual people SN - 9780241961063 AV - B 1801 H428h 2016 PY - 2016/// CY - London : PB - Penguin Books, KW - FilosofĂ­a francesa KW - Francia KW - Vida intelectual N1 - Originally published: UK: Allen Lane, 2015; 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 N2 - 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 ER -