The Cambridge history of French thought /
French thinkers have revolutionized European thought about knowledge, religion, politics and society. Delivering a comprehensive history of thought in France from the Middle Ages to the present, this book follows themes and developments of thought across the centuries. It provides readers with studi...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. The Middle Ages to 1789
- Medieval French thought / David Luscombe
- Humanist culture in renaissance france / Ingrid De Smet
- Reformers and dissidents / Neil Kenny
- Rabelais / John O'Brien
- Moral theories: aristotelianism and neostoicism / Ullrich Langer
- Pyrrhonism / John O'Brien
- Ramus / Raphaele Garrod
- Montaigne / John O'Brien
- Demonology / Timothy Chesters
- Political and legal thought / Sophie E. B. Nicholls
- Linguistic and literary thought: mid-sixteenth to mid-seventeenth centuries / John D. Lyons
- French scholastics in the seventeenth century / Roger Ariew
- Sceptics and freethinkers / Isabelle Moreau
- Descartes / Gary Hatfield
- Augustinianism / Michael Moriarty
- Spirituality / Richard Parish
- Blaise pascal / Emma Gilby
- Cartesianism / Steven Nadler
- Pierre Bayle / Ruth Whelan
- Ethical, political, and social thought / Michael Moriarty
- Aesthetics: ancients and moderns / Richard Scholar
- The querelle des femmes / Rebecca Wilkin
- The Enlightenment / Jenny Mander
- Voltaire / John Leigh
- Diderot / Marian Hobson
- Rousseau / Michael Moriarty
- Philosophy and religion: deism, atheism, materialism / Caroline Warman
- Enlightenment political and social thought / A.M.R De Dijn
- The continent of history / David Mccallam
- Enlightenment aesthetic thought / Kate E. Tunstall
- The enlightenment and gender / Judith Still
- Colonialism and slavery / Jenny Mander
- Part 2. From 1789 to the present day
- French thought on the eve of the revolution and after / Jeremy Jennings
- Political thought in the nineteenth century / Jeremy Jennings
- The Paris School of liberal political economy / David Hart
- Romanticism / Alison Finch
- Victor Cousin and eclecticism / Benjamin Bacle
- Nineteenth-century religious thought / Robert Priest
- Auguste Comte and positivism / Mary Pickering
- Race and empire in ninteenth-century France / Emmanuelle Saada
- Philosophy: epistemological debates and bergson / Daniela S. Barberis
- Nation and nationalism / Michael Sutton
- Twentieth-century French Catholic thought / Michael Sutton
- Writing modern French history / Philip Whalen
- Sartre and the art of living with paradox / Thomas R. Flynn
- Marxism versus humanism / Knox Peden
- French feminist thought in the twentieth century / Diana Holmes
- Anticolonialism / Emile Chabal
- The new liberalism / Daniel J. Mahoney
- Michel Foucault / Michael C. Behrent
- Jacques Derrida and deconstruction / Paul Rekret
- Sociology / Daniela J. Barberis
- Literary theory / Patrick Ffrench
- Conclusion: the end of French thought? / Jeremy Jennings.