02776nam 2200601Ia 450 991045173390332120200520144314.00-8166-9075-8(CKB)1000000000346927(EBL)310496(OCoLC)476094824(SSID)ssj0000158341(PQKBManifestationID)11164008(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000158341(PQKBWorkID)10147296(PQKB)11779551(MiAaPQ)EBC310496(OCoLC)191818457(MdBmJHUP)muse39173(Au-PeEL)EBL310496(CaPaEBR)ebr10159550(CaONFJC)MIL522759(EXLCZ)99100000000034692719991101d2000 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFrench resistance[electronic resource] the French-American culture wars /Jean-Philippe MathyMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20001 online resource (225 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-3442-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-206) and index.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; INDEXConsistently 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.Politics and cultureFranceIntellectual lifeAmerican influencesUnited StatesIntellectual lifeFrench influencesUnited StatesRelationsFranceFranceRelationsUnited StatesElectronic books.Politics and culture.303.48244073Mathy Jean-Philippe991078MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451733903321French resistance2267947UNINA