作者:
Sudhir Hazareesingh 出版社: Allen Lane 副标题: An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People. 出版年: 2015-9-22 页数: 352 定价: USD 21 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9781846146022
In How the French Think, the internationally-renowned historian Sudhir Hazareesingh tells the epic and tumultuous story of French intellectual thought from Descartes, Rousseau, and Auguste Comte to Sartre, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Derrida. He shows how French thinking has shaped fundamental Westerns ideas about freedom, rationality, and justice, and how the French mind-set is i...
In How the French Think, the internationally-renowned historian Sudhir Hazareesingh tells the epic and tumultuous story of French intellectual thought from Descartes, Rousseau, and Auguste Comte to Sartre, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Derrida. He shows how French thinking has shaped fundamental Westerns ideas about freedom, rationality, and justice, and how the French mind-set is intimately connected to their own way of life—in particular to the French tendency towards individualism, their passion for nature, their celebration of their historical heritage, and their fascination with death. Hazareesingh explores the French veneration of dissent and skepticism, from Voltaire to the Dreyfus Affair and beyond; the obsession with the protection of French language and culture; the rhetorical flair embodied by the philosophes, which today’s intellectuals still try to recapture; the astonishing influence of French postmodern thinkers, including Foucault and Barthes, on postwar American education and life, and also the growing French anxiety about a globalized world order under American hegemony.
How the French Think sweeps aside generalizations and easy stereotypes to offer an incisive and revealing exploration of the French intellectual tradition. Steeped in a colorful range of sources, and written with warmth and humor, this book will appeal to all lovers of France and of European culture.
作者简介
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Sudhir Hazareesingh, a professor of politics at Oxford University
原文摘录
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This book attempts to put together all the pieces of this gigantic puzzle to make a single, integrated account, both serious and playful, of the French way of thinking across different subjects and epochs, from Descartes to Derrida, and from abstruse moral and philosophical issues to the questions of the survival of French culture ina globalized world. (查看原文)
1 有用 ALEX 2017-12-08 22:38:16
这本书是在荷兰转机的时候买的，当时粗粗看了些评论写的挺有趣就买了没细翻。本以为是本轻松诙谐的书供我在飞机上打法时间用，谁知道读后发现是本挺严肃的书…需要较大量的法国哲学和历史的知识储备我觉得可能才能读出insight...开始读的挺困难，争取读完吧
0 有用 Lele 2018-10-31 18:41:48
真的是挖根究源了，行为现象背后都有各自的思潮支撑，有时候会恍然大悟更多是一知半解，对我这个小白还是很难消化，