ABSTRACT
In this wide-ranging guide to twentieth-century French thought, leading scholars offer an authoritative multi-disciplinary analysis of one of the most distinctive and influential traditions in modern thought. Unlike any other existing work, this important work covers not only philosophy, but also all the other major disciplines, including literary theory, sociology, linguistics, political thought, theology, and more.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
letter |31 pages
A
entry |3 pages
Alain (ÉMile-Auguste Chartier)
entry |6 pages
Althusser, Louis Philosopher, Political Theorist
entry |7 pages
Anthropology
entry |2 pages
Ariès, Philippe
entry |2 pages
Arkoun, Mohammed
entry |4 pages
Aron, Raymond
entry |6 pages
Art History, Criticism, and Aesthetics
entry |3 pages
Artaud, Antonin
entry |4 pages
Autobiography
letter |77 pages
B
entry |4 pages
Bachelard, Gaston
entry |4 pages
Badiou, Alain
entry |4 pages
Balibar, Étienne
entry |2 pages
Balibar, Renée
entry |4 pages
Bardèche, Maurice
entry |4 pages
Maurice Barrès
entry |7 pages
Barthes, Roland
entry |6 pages
Bataille, Georges
entry |6 pages
Baudrillard, Jean
entry |3 pages
Bazin, André
entry |7 pages
Beauvoir, Simone de
entry |3 pages
Beguin, Albert
entry |3 pages
Benda, Julien
entry |4 pages
Émile Benveniste
entry |7 pages
Bergson, Henri
entry |4 pages
Bernanos, Georges
entry |2 pages
Beyala, Calixthe
entry |4 pages
Bloch, Marc
entry |2 pages
Blondel, Maurice
entry |3 pages
Bloy, Léon Henri Marie
entry |5 pages
Body
entry |2 pages
Bonnefoy, Yves
entry |4 pages
Bourdieu, Pierre
entry |2 pages
Breton, André
entry |3 pages
Breuil, Henri
entry |3 pages
Brunschvicg, Léon
letter |44 pages
C
entry |3 pages
Caillois, Roger
entry |6 pages
Camus, Albert
entry |3 pages
Canguilhem, Georges
entry |3 pages
Cassin, Barbara
entry |3 pages
Castoriadis, Cornelius
entry |5 pages
Catholicism
entry |3 pages
Cavaillès, Jean
entry |3 pages
Certeau, Michel de
entry |4 pages
Césaire, Aimé
entry |3 pages
Chamoiseau, Patrick
entry |3 pages
Cioran, Emil Michel
entry |4 pages
Cioran, Emil Michel
entry |5 pages
Classics
entry |6 pages
Colonial and Postcolonial Experience
entry |4 pages
Culture
letter |44 pages
D
entry |4 pages
Debord, Guy
entry |6 pages
Deleuze, Gilles
entry |3 pages
Depestre, René
entry |9 pages
Derrida, Jacques
entry |4 pages
Didi-Huberman, Georges
entry |4 pages
Diop, Cheikh Anta
entry |3 pages
Djebar, Assia
entry |3 pages
Duby, Georges
entry |3 pages
Dufrenne, Mikel
entry |4 pages
Duhem, Pierre
entry |2 pages
Dumazedier, Joffre
entry |3 pages
Dumézil, Georges
entry |5 pages
Durkheim, Émile David
entry |2 pages
Duvert, Tony
entry |3 pages
Duvignaud, Jean
letter |13 pages
E
entry |6 pages
Educational Theory
entry |3 pages
Ellul, Jacques
entry |6 pages
Existentialism
letter |34 pages
F
entry |3 pages
Fanon, Frantz
entry |3 pages
Febvre, Lucien Paul Victor
entry |6 pages
Feminism
entry |3 pages
Focillon, Henri-Joseph
entry |7 pages
Foucault, Michel
entry |5 pages
Francophonie, La
entry |4 pages
Francophonie, La
entry |5 pages
French Thought in the United States
entry |6 pages
French-Jewish Intellectuals
letter |38 pages
G
entry |2 pages
Garaudy, Roger
entry |3 pages
Genette, Gérard
entry |2 pages
Van Gennep, Arnold
entry |4 pages
Gény, François
entry |3 pages
Gide, André Paul Guillaume
entry |4 pages
Gilson, Etienne Henry
entry |3 pages
Girard, René
entry |4 pages
Glissant, Édouard
entry |2 pages
Glucksmann, André
entry |4 pages
Godard, Jean-Luc
entry |3 pages
Goldmann, Lucien
entry |4 pages
Gorz, Andre
entry |3 pages
Greimas, Algirdas Julien
entry |3 pages
Grenier, Jean
entry |4 pages
Guattari, Félix
entry |3 pages
Guérin, Daniel
entry |3 pages
Gurvitch, Georges
letter |54 pages
H
entry |4 pages
Halbwachs, Maurice
entry |3 pages
Halévy, Daniel
entry |3 pages
Hazard, Paul
entry |2 pages
Hervé, Gérald
entry |6 pages
Historical Survey: 1870–1918
entry |6 pages
Historical Survey: 1918–1939
entry |9 pages
Historical Survey: 1939–1968
entry |4 pages
Historical Survey: 1968–Present
entry |6 pages
Historiography
entry |3 pages
Hocquenghem, Guy
entry |5 pages
Holocaust in France
entry |5 pages
Homosexuality
entry |3 pages
Houellebecq, Michel
entry |4 pages
Humanism and Antihumanism
entry |3 pages
Huygue, René
entry |3 pages
Hyvrard, Jeanne
letter |12 pages
I
entry |6 pages
The Influence of German Thought
entry |5 pages
Intellectuals
entry |3 pages
Irigaray, Luce
letter |16 pages
J
entry |3 pages
Jankélévitch, Vladimir
entry |3 pages
Jaurès, Jean
entry |7 pages
The Jewish Question
entry |6 pages
Journals and Periodicals
letter |15 pages
K
entry |3 pages
Khatibi, Abdelkebir
entry |3 pages
Klossowski, Pierre
entry |3 pages
Knowledge and Truth
entry |4 pages
Kojève, Alexandre
entry |3 pages
Alexandre Koyré
entry |4 pages
Kristeva, Julia
letter |64 pages
L
entry |3 pages
Kristeva, Julia
entry |8 pages
Lacan, Jacques
entry |4 pages
Ladurie, Le Roy (Emmanuel)
entry |6 pages
Language
entry |2 pages
Lavelle, Louis
entry |3 pages
Law
entry |3 pages
Le Dœuff, Michèle
entry |2 pages
Le Senne, René
entry |4 pages
Leclerc, Annie
entry |2 pages
Lecomte Du Noüy, Pierre
entry |4 pages
Lefebvre, Henri
entry |2 pages
Lefort, Claude
entry |3 pages
Leiris, Michel
entry |5 pages
Levinas, Emmanuel
entry |7 pages
Levi-Strauss, Claude
entry |3 pages
Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien
entry |5 pages
Linguistics
entry |3 pages
Lipietz, Alain
entry |5 pages
Literary Theory and Criticism
entry |3 pages
Loraux, Nicole
entry |2 pages
Lubac, Henri de, Cardinal
entry |5 pages
Lyotard, Jean-François
letter |47 pages
M
entry |3 pages
Macherey, Pierre
entry |3 pages
Mâle, Émile
entry |3 pages
Mandel, Ernest
entry |4 pages
Marcel, Gabriel Honoré
entry |3 pages
Marin, Louis
entry |3 pages
Maritain, Jacques
entry |5 pages
Marxism
entry |3 pages
Massis, Henri
entry |2 pages
Mauron, Charles
entry |3 pages
Maurras, Charles
entry |3 pages
Mauss, Marcel
entry |5 pages
Media
entry |7 pages
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
entry |3 pages
Metz, Christian
entry |5 pages
Modernism and Postmodernism
entry |3 pages
Monod, Jacques (Lucien)
entry |2 pages
Mounier, Emmanuel
entry |3 pages
Mudimbe, Valentin Yves
letter |5 pages
N
entry |3 pages
Nancy, Jean-Luc
entry |3 pages
Nizan, Paul-Yves
letter |50 pages
P
entry |3 pages
Paulhan, Jean
entry |5 pages
Phenomenology
entry |8 pages
Philosophy
entry |5 pages
Philosophy of Science
entry |7 pages
Poetry
entry |5 pages
Political Movements and Debates
entry |3 pages
Politzer, Georges(Aka FrançOis Arouet; Félix Arnold)
entry |4 pages
Poststructuralism
entry |3 pages
Poulantzas, Nicos
entry |3 pages
Poulet, Georges
entry |3 pages
Prévost, Jean
entry |3 pages
Price-Mars, Jean
entry |2 pages
Proust, Marcel
entry |6 pages
Psychoanalytic Theory
entry |4 pages
Psychology
letter |15 pages
R
entry |3 pages
Rancière, Jacques
entry |3 pages
Raymond, Marcel
entry |5 pages
Ricoeur, Paul
entry |3 pages
Rivière, Jacques
entry |3 pages
Robbe-Grillet, Alain
entry |2 pages
Rougemont, Denis de
letter |49 pages
S
entry |6 pages
Sartre, Jean-Paul
entry |3 pages
Sarraute, Nathalie
entry |3 pages
Saussure, Ferdinand de
entry |2 pages
Sayad, Abdelmalek
entry |3 pages
Senghor, Léopold (SÉDAR)
entry |3 pages
Serres, Michel
entry |6 pages
Sexuality
entry |3 pages
Simon, Claude
entry |5 pages
Sociology
entry |4 pages
Sollers, Philippe
entry |3 pages
Sorel, Georges
entry |2 pages
Starobinski, Jean
entry |6 pages
Structuralism
entry |4 pages
Suarès, André
entry |6 pages
Subject (Selfand Subjectivity)
entry |4 pages
Surrealism
letter |17 pages
T
entry |4 pages
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre
entry |6 pages
Theology and Religious Thought
entry |3 pages
Thibaudet, Albert
entry |4 pages
Todorov, Tzvetan
entry |4 pages
Tournier, Michel
letter |10 pages
V
entry |3 pages
Valéry, Paul
entry |3 pages
Vernant, Jean-Pierre
entry |2 pages
Vidal-Naquet, Pierre
entry |3 pages
Virilio, Paul
entry |3 pages
Vovelle, Michel
letter |11 pages
W
entry |3 pages
Wahl, Jean
entry |7 pages
Weil, Simone
entry |3 pages
Wittig, Monique
