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Publisher : Editions Bréal
ISBN 13 : 2749525756
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (495 download)
Download or read book written by and published by Editions Bréal. This book was released on with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emile Chabal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472507444
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book France since the 1970s written by Emile Chabal and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the mid-20th century, France saw itself as a great power with universalist aspirations and global ambitions. But the Second World War and decolonisation irrevocably changed France's place in the world. Despite attempts to restore the country's 'grandeur' in the 1960s, the French have been forced to reconcile themselves to their modest place at the heart of a changing Europe. What impact has this had on political life? How have the French reimagined the revolutionary, republican and reactionary ideologies that have been so crucial to their history? How has the arrival of hundreds of thousands of postcolonial migrants transformed politics? These are just some of the questions at the heart of France since the 1970s. With contributions from leading specialists on topics as varied as the legacy of empire and neo-liberalism, it explores how the French have dealt with the pervasive sense of uncertainty that has become a defining feature of contemporary European politics.
Author : Franck Hofmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110691612
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Epoch of Universalism 1769–1989 / L’époque de l’universalisme 1769–1989 written by Franck Hofmann and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2019 witnessed the 30th anniversary of the German reunification. But the remembrance of the fall of the Berlin Wall coincided with another event of global importance that caught much less attention: the 250th anniversary of Napoleon Bonaparte’s birth. There is an undeniable historical and philosophical dimension to this coincidence. Napoleon’s appearance on the scene of world history seems to embody European universalism (soon thereafter in the form of a ‘modern’ imperial project); whilst scholars such as Francis Fukuyama saw in the events of 1989 its historical fulfilment. Today, we see more clearly that the fall of the Berlin Wall stands for an epistemic earthquake, which generated a world that can no longer be grasped through universal concepts. Here, we deal with the idea of Europe and of its relation to the world itself. Picking up on this contingency of world history with an ironic wink, the volume analyses in retrospect the epoch of European universalism. It focusses on its dialectics, polemically addressing and remembering both 1769 and 1989. L’année 2019 a été marquée par le 30e anniversaire de la réunification de l’Allemagne, éclipsant un autre événement d’envergure mondiale : le 250e anniversaire de Napoléon Bonaparte. La dimension philosophico-historique de cette coïncidence ne peut pourtant pas être négligée : si l’arrivée de Bonaparte sur la scène de l’histoire mondiale semble incarner l’avènement de l’universalisme européen (bientôt amené à prendre sa forme « moderne » et impériale), certains penseurs ont suggéré, avec Francis Fukuyama, que « 1989 » marquait son accomplissement historique. Aujourd’hui, il apparaît au contraire que la chute du mur de Berlin a été un véritable tremblement de terre épistémique, et rendu inopérants les concepts universels. Dans le monde d’après, c’est à l’idée d’Europe et à sa relation au monde que nous avons affaire. Revenant par un geste ironique sur cette contingence historique, le présent volume se veut une analyse rétrospective de l’époque de l’universalisme, dans toute la dialectique que les commémorations de 1769/1989 ont fait surgir.
Author : Philip Daileader
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9781444323665
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (236 download)
Download or read book French Historians 1900-2000 written by Philip Daileader and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French Historians 1900-2000: The New Historical Writing inTwentieth-Century France examines the lives and writings of 40of France’s great twentieth-century historians. Blends biography with critical analysis of major works, placingthe work of the French historians in the context of their lifestories Includes contributions from over 30 international scholars Provides English-speaking readers with a new insight into thekey French historians of the last century
Author : Evi Gkotzaridis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134331975
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)
Download or read book Trials of Irish History written by Evi Gkotzaridis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing her original insights into theory and philosophy to bear upon the controversial question of revision in Irish history, Evi Gkotzaridis presents the first historical and theoretical examination of the trailblazer historians who, from 1938, spearheaded an unpoliticized Irish history. Drawing on hitherto unused archives, Trials of Irish History shows how the venture to disenthrall Irish and European history from official propagandas proved stimulating and challenging, but perilous. Providing a new and stimulating conceptual framework for the study of Irish historiography, the book combines a theoretical approach with close analysis of important case studies and includes: * an incisive restaging of the passionate joust that took place between revisionists and traditionalists in the shadow of the Troubles * examination of the cultural contradiction of the first decades of independence, the estrangement of two regimes and the devastation of the Second World War * comparison of the Irish Kulturkampf to similar discussions in German and France in order to identify and examine the arguments propounded on each side. Prising open conflicting intellectual notions about the function of history in a divided society, this will be an informative and stimulating addition to the study of Irish history.
Author : Philippe Carrard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022642801X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book History as a Kind of Writing written by Philippe Carrard and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In academia, the traditional role of the humanities is being questioned by the “posts”—postmodernism, poststructuralism, and postfeminism—which means that the project of writing history only grows more complex. In History as a Kind of Writing, scholar of French literature and culture Philippe Carrard speaks to this complexity by focusing the lens on the current state of French historiography. Carrard’s work here is expansive—examining the conventions historians draw on to produce their texts and casting light on views put forward by literary theorists, theorists of history, and historians themselves. Ranging from discussions of lengthy dissertations on 1960s social and economic history to a more contemporary focus on events, actors, memory, and culture, the book digs deep into the how of history. How do historians arrange their data into narratives? What strategies do they employ to justify the validity of their descriptions? Are actors given their own voice? Along the way, Carrard also readdresses questions fundamental to the field, including its necessary membership in the narrative genre, the presumed objectivity of historiographic writing, and the place of history as a science, distinct from the natural and theoretical sciences.
Author : Max Silverman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134795106
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Facing Postmodernity written by Max Silverman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facing Postmodernity explains French cultural theory by grounding it in the politics of the issues facing France today such as: * the breaking of the city * racism * the crisis of culture * new citizenship. It discusses some of the major responses to postmodernity by contemporary French thinkers, both the very well known -Lyotard, Levinas, Derrida - and those who will be less familiar to a non-French audience. In doing so, it addresses the questions central to the postmodern debate whatever country it takes place in; questions of history, of representation, identity and community.
Author : Alain Touraine
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804740432
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Can We Live Together? written by Alain Touraine and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, a leading French social thinker grapples with the gap between the tendency toward globalization of economic relations and mass culture and the increasingly sectarian nature of our social identities as members of ethnic, religious, or national groups. Though at first glance, it might seem as if the answer to the question Can we live together? is that we already do live togetherwatching the same television programs, buying the same clothes, and even using the same language to communicate from one country to anotherthe author argues that in important ways, we are farther than ever from belonging to the same society or the same culture. Our small societies are not gradually merging into one vast global society; instead, the simultaneously political, territorial, and cultural entities that we once called societies or countries are breaking up before our eyes in the wake of ethnic, political, and religious conflict. The result is that we live together only to the extent that we make the same gestures and use the same objectswe do not communicate with one another in a meaningful way or govern ourselves together. What power can now reconcile a transnational economy with the disturbing reality of introverted communities? The author argues against the idea that all we can do is agree on some social rules of mutual tolerance and respect for personal freedom, and forgo the attempt to forge deeper bonds. He argues instead that we can use a focus on the personal life-projectthe construction of an active self or subjectultimately to form meaningful social and political institutions. The book concludes by exploring how social institutions might be retooled to safeguard the development of the personal subject and communication between subjects, and by sketching out what these new social institutions might look like in terms of social relations, politics, and education.
Author : Christian Berg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110884097
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Turn of the Century/Le tournant du siècle written by Christian Berg and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jean-Claude Guillebaud
Publisher : Algora Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1892941554
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (929 download)
Download or read book Re-founding the World written by Jean-Claude Guillebaud and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it time to dump Western capitalism's values? Or on the contrary, to re-found our market-based society by dumping its distortions and returning to the fundamental values of our Greek-Judeo-Christian heritage?
Author : Michel Ducharme
Publisher : Presses Université Laval
ISBN 13 : 9782763780542
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Les idées en mouvement written by Michel Ducharme and published by Presses Université Laval. This book was released on 2004 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karyn Ball
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791477770
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Disciplining the Holocaust written by Karyn Ball and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2008-10-22 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disciplining the Holocaust examines critics' efforts to defend a rigorous and morally appropriate image of the Holocaust. Rather than limiting herself to polemics about the "proper" approach to traumatic history, Karyn Ball explores recent trends in intellectual history that govern a contemporary ethics of scholarship about the Holocaust. She examines the scholarly reception of Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners, the debates culminating in Eisenman's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, Lyotard's response to negations of testimony about the gas chambers, psychoanalytically informed frameworks for the critical study of traumatic history, and a conference on feminist approaches to the Holocaust and genocide. Ball's book bridges the gap between psychoanalysis and Foucault's understanding of disciplinary power in order to highlight the social implications of traumatic history.
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Total Pages : 916 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Index to the Catalogue of Books in the Bates Hall of the Public Library of the City of Boston written by and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mireille Razafindrakoto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108488331
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Puzzle and Paradox written by Mireille Razafindrakoto and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses the economic and political history of Madagascar from independence to the early twenty-first century.
Author : Alexandre Gefen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111428001
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Repair the World written by Alexandre Gefen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-08-19 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talk of repair has become ubiquitous in recent years. In the age of trauma culture, art and literature have a new purpose: to do justice, to console, comfort, and heal. Drawing on works of twenty-first-century French-language literature, this monograph shows how literature can not only serve as a means of "personal development", but expand our capacity for empathy, help repair the "brokenness" implied in victimhood, and redress individual and collective traumas. Centered on a critical reflection on discourses of repair (and reparations), it questions the canonical theories on the functions of literature and proposes a new way of writing (and reading) literary history.
Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137103264
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (371 download)
Download or read book Revisiting Nationalism written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers together French-language authors who in the last decade have played a part in the renewal of interest in the question of nationalism. This volume organized along thematic lines and with a genuine transversal approach, seeks to give audiences a glimpse of some of that research, whether related to theoretical, normative or analytical questions.
Author : Henry Rousso
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022616523X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book The Latest Catastrophe written by Henry Rousso and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-07-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writing of recent history tends to be deeply marked by conflict, by personal and collective struggles rooted in horrific traumas and bitter controversies. Frequently, today’s historians can find themselves researching the same events that they themselves lived through. This book reflects on the concept and practices of what is called “contemporary history,” a history of the present time, and identifies special tensions in the field between knowledge and experience, distance and proximity, and objectivity and subjectivity. Henry Rousso addresses the rise of contemporary history and the relations of present-day societies to their past, especially their legacies of political violence. Focusing on France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States, he shows that for contemporary historians, the recent past has become a problem to be solved. No longer unfolding as a series of traditions to be respected or a set of knowledge to be transmitted and built upon, history today is treated as a constant act of mourning or memory, an attempt to atone. Historians must also negotiate with strife within this field, as older scholars who may have lived through events clash with younger historians who also claim to understand the experiences. Ultimately, The Latest Catastrophe shows how historians, at times against their will, have themselves become actors in a history still being made.
