02717nam 2200589Ia 450 991082002400332120200520144314.00-8166-9075-8(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|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFrench resistance the French-American culture wars /Jean-Philippe Mathy1st ed.Minneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20001 online resource (xi, 211 pages)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 StatesPolitics and culture.303.48244073Mathy Jean-Philippe1646387MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820024003321French resistance3993369UNINA