{"product_id":"french-resistance-jean-philippe-mathy-9780816634422","title":"French Resistance: The French-American Culture Wars","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn original look at the intellectual issues that divide--and unite--these two republics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVive la différence? Almost as soon as Foucault, Derrida, and Lacan began to captivate American academics, naysayers began to bemoan the effects of French theory on American thought. French critics, on the other hand, have made short shrift of what passes for intellectual life in America. \u003ci\u003eFrench Resistance \u003c\/i\u003egets to the heart--and the history--of these vexed French-American relations. Consistently illuminating and often polemical, the book focuses on recent transatlantic debates over critical theory, national identity, and multiculturalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStarting 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 each national tradition has represented the other, and how different conceptions of liberalism, democratic pluralism, and republicanism figure in these representations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrench Resistance takes exception to the commonplace opposition between a pluralist American model and an intolerant, centralized French one. At the same time, it places this rhetoric of incompatibility in the context of the long history of French and American controversies going back to the days of the French Revolution. Rather than oppose France and the United States as incomparable and incompatible regimes of nation building, this book argues that the two countries face similar challenges and mobilize comparable, if not identical, philosophical and political resources when it comes to closing the gap between their republican-democratic principles and national histories of oppression and persecution of individuals and groups on the basis of ethnicity, religion, national origin, and past colonial status.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jean-Philippe Mathy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816634424\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816634422\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/07\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.32h x 6.21w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2000 pg. 758","brand":"Jean-Philippe Mathy","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086943400191,"sku":"9780816634422","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ce561631-17d0-4306-802b-5d60c3ae40c8.jpg?v=1769097425","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/french-resistance-jean-philippe-mathy-9780816634422","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}