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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451733903321

Autore

Mathy Jean-Philippe

Titolo

French resistance [[electronic resource] ] : the French-American culture wars / / Jean-Philippe Mathy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2000

ISBN

0-8166-9075-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Disciplina

303.48244073

Soggetti

Politics and culture

Electronic books.

France Intellectual life American influences

United States Intellectual life French influences

United States Relations France

France Relations United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-206) and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 French Theory in the United States; 2 The French Revolution at Two Hundred: The Bicentennial and the Return of Rights-Liberalism; 3 Back to la République: French Intellectuals after Communism; 4 Cultural Studies, Postcolonialism, and the French National Idea; 5 Multiculturalism and Its Discontents; CONCLUSION; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Consistently illuminating and often polemical, French Resistance focuses on recent transatlantic debates over critical theory, national identity, and multiculturalism.orStarting 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 French and American national traditions have represented the other, and how different conceptions of liberalism, democratic pluralism, and republicanism figure in these representations.