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Book SynopsisCovers and critiques the intellectual figures, movements, and publications that helped shape and define fields as diverse as history and historiography, psychoanalysis, film, literary theory, cognitive and life sciences, literary criticism, philosophy, and economics.
Trade ReviewBoth researchers and browsers will delight in this authoritative compendium of articles on France's intellectual century. Library Journal A must for students of French intellectual history. France Magazine Massive and steady... a patchwork of colorful characters, abstract figures, dense superimpositions. France Today A highly polished piece of original scholarship. Choice [A] superb overview of its subject. -- Carlin Romano Philadelphia Inquirer The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought is a well-designed and well-executed volume. American Reference Books Annual Creative in organization, innovative in choice of themes, and unsurpassed in quality... a volume without parallel. -- Andrew Sobanet French Forum A remarkably well-designed and well-executed volume. -- Delilah R. Caldwell American Reference Books Annual
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Contributors Select Chronology Introduction Part I: Movements and Currents Part II: Themes Part III: Intellectuals Part IV: Dissemination Alphabetical List of Articles Index
