TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hazareesingh,Sudhir
TI  - How the French think: an affectionate portrait of an intellectual people 
SN  - 9780465032495 (hardcover)
AV  - B 1801 H428h 2015
U1  - 194 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York
PB  - Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
KW  - Philosophy, French
KW  - Filosofía francesa
KW  - France
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Francia
KW  - Vida intelectual
N1  - 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
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  -