{"product_id":"the-columbia-history-of-twentiethcentury-french-thought","title":"The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith more than two hundred entries by leading intellectuals in the French- and English-speaking world  this new volume presents the authoritative guide to twentieth-century French thought. Unrivaled in its scope and depth  The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought covers and critiques the intellectual figures  movements  and publications that helped shape and define fields as diverse as history and historiography  psychoanalysis  film  literary theory  cognitive and life sciences  literary criticism  philosophy  and economics. The contributors also discuss developments in French thought on such subjects as pacifism  fashion  gastronomy  technology  and urbanism.  More than just a reference volume  The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought offers original and imaginative explorations of a variety of topics. Contributors include prominent French thinkers  many of whom have played an integral role in the development of French thought  and American  British  and Canadian scholars who have been vital in the dissemination of French ideas. The book brings together such pairings as Etienne Balibar on Althusser; Jean Baudrillard on the futures of theory; Judith Butler on Hegel in France; Rgis Debray on mediology; Julia Kristeva on Proust; Michael Morange on the life sciences; Paul Ricoeur on ethics; Elisabeth Roudinesco on psychoanalysis; and Roger Shattuck on humanisms.  The book is divided into four parts: Movements and Currents (including all the major schools of thought  such as the Annales  deconstruction  Gaullism  ngritude  the New Right  psychoanalysis  and structuralism); Themes (ideas that helped define intellectual work in the twentieth century  such as anti-Semitism  the avant-garde  everyday life  film theory  and nationalism); Intellectuals (including critical accounts of the lives and work of such figures as Aron  Barthes  de Beauvoir  Deleuze  Derrida  Foucault  Irigaray  Kristeva  Levinas  and Proust); and Dissemination (covering influential journals  television shows  radio programs  and newspapers).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44966619447349,"sku":"ByrdShop_0231107900","price":29.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780231107907.jpg?v=1770571877","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-columbia-history-of-twentiethcentury-french-thought","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}