How the French Think: An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People

Hazareesingh, Sudhir

ISBN 10: 184614602X ISBN 13: 9781846146022

Published by Allen Lane / Penguin, UK, 2015

Language: English

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Title

How the French Think: An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People

Publisher

Allen Lane / Penguin, UK

Publication Date

2015

Language

English

ISBN 10

184614602X

ISBN 13

9781846146022

Binding

Hardcover/Hardback

Edition

First Edition.

Condition

Very Good

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Very Good

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931 grams

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Sudhir Hazareesingh's How the French Think is a warm yet incisive exploration of the French intellectual tradition, and its exceptional place in a nation's identity and lifestyle.

The French: orderly and anarchic, rational and mystical, arrogant and anxious, charming and exasperating, serious and frivolous, pessimistic, pleasure-loving - and, perhaps more than any other people, intellectual. In this original and entertaining approach to France and the French, Sudhir Hazareesingh describes how the French ways of thought and life connect to make them such a distinctive nation.

One of the purposes of How The French Think is to convey the ideas of some of the most influential French thinkers of the past 400 years - Voltaire and Rousseau, Hugo and Michelet, Camus and Sartre, L�vi-Strauss and Foucault. Sudhir Hazareesingh is able to show how bold, imaginative and sweeping French thought is, how greatly it values high culture (in contrast to the English) and how it has given an almost sacred role to the writer - hence the prominent role of intellectuals in French collective life, and the intensity with which ideas are debated.

The book explores the French commitment to rationalism and ideology, their belief in the State, their cult of heroes and their contempt for materialism. It describes their stylistic fetishes, their fondness for general notions, their love of paradoxes, their current fixations with the nation and collective memory, their messianic instincts and their devotion to universalism. 'France', claimed the historian Ernest Lavisse without a trace of irony, 'is charged with representing the cause of humanity'.

How The French Think ranges from Descartes to Derrida, and from big moral and philosophical issues to the symbolic significance of Ast�rix and the survival of the French language in a globalized world. Drawing on a colourful range of sources, and written with warmth and humour, it will appeal to all lovers of France and of French culture.

About the Author

Sudhir Hazareesingh was born in Mauritius. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and has been a Fellow and Tutor in Politics at Balliol College, Oxford, since 1990. Among his books are The Legend of Napoleon (Granta, 2004) and Le Mythe Gaullien (Gallimard, 2010). He won the Prix du M�morial d'Ajaccio and the Prix de la Fondation Napol�on for the first of these, and a Prix d'Histoire du S�nat for the second.

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