| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 211 pages) |
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 French Theory in the United States; 2 The French Revolution at Two Hundred: The Bicentennial and the Return of Rights-Liberalism; 3 Back to la République: French Intellectuals after Communism; 4 Cultural Studies, Postcolonialism, and the French National Idea; 5 Multiculturalism and Its Discontents; CONCLUSION; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
| Summary |
Consistently illuminating and often polemical, French Resistance focuses on recent transatlantic debates over critical theory, national identity, and multiculturalism.orStarting from well-publicized controversies such as the bicentennial of the French Revolution, the 1989 Affair of the Veil, or the more recent Sokal Affair, Jean-Philippe Mathy looks at how French and American national traditions have represented the other, and how different conceptions of liberalism, democratic pluralism, and republicanism figure in these representations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-206) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Politics and culture.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Globalization.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
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Intellectual life -- American influences
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Intellectual life -- French influences
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International relations
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Politics and culture
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Culturele invloeden.
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Intellectuelen.
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France -- Intellectual life -- American influences.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98007754
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United States -- Intellectual life -- French influences.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003003220
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United States -- Relations -- France.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89002752
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France -- Relations -- United States.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89002751
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France
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780816690756 |
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0816690758 |
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