The Cambridge History of French Thought (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781107163676)

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 studies of both systematic thinkers and those who operate less systematically, through essays or fragments, and places them all in their many contexts. Informed by up-to-date research, these accessible chapters are written by prominent experts in their fields who investigate key concepts in non-technical language. Chapters feature treatments of specific thinkers as individuals including Voltaire, Rousseau, Descartes and Derrida, but also more general movements and schools of thought from humanism to liberalism, via the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Marxism, and feminism. Furthermore, the influence of gender, race, empire and slavery are investigated to offer a broad and fulfilling account of French thought throughout the ages.

Author: Michael Moriarty
ISBN-10: 1107163676
ISBN-13: 9781107163676
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/30/2019
Pages: 598
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.10lbs
Size: 9.20h x 8.30w x 1.40d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2020