How the French think an affectionate portrait of an intellectual people /

Hazareesingh, Sudhir

How the French think an affectionate portrait of an intellectual people / [Texte imprimé] : Sudhir Hazareesingh - New York : Basic Books, cop. 2015 - 1 vol. (338 p.) ; 24 cm

Notes bibliogr.

A yearning towards universality -- The skull of Descartes -- Darkness and light -- Landscapes of Utopia -- The ideals of science -- To the left, and to the right -- The sum of their parts -- Interlude: new paths to the present -- Freedom and domination -- Writing for everybody -- The end of history -- The closing of the French mind -- Anxiety and optimism

978-0-465-03249-5

Philosophy, French France / Intellectual life

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