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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jean-Philippe Mathy (Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.544kg ISBN: 9780271037844ISBN 10: 0271037849 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 15 April 2016 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: Loss, Mourning, Memory 1. Specters of the Sixties 2. French Postmodern 3. Le Débat, Year One: The Generation of 1980 4. The Return of the Prophet: Bourdieu, Zola, and the Dreyfusist Legacy 5. Desperately Seeking Marianne: The Uses of the Republic 6. Memory Wars 7. Old Wine, New Skins: Race, Laïcité, Frenchness Conclusion Bibliography IndexReviews<p> [Mathy's] study provides highly readable and informative insight into contemporary waves in French thought and political culture. <p>--Drew Flanagan, H-Net Reviews Mathy has long been a lucid interpreter of French intellectual history. His new book is particularly timely, as it sheds a historian's light on the current controversial politics of national identity in France. Mathy shows that it is best understood in the context of a national 'depression'--and his reflections on 'melancholy politics' give precise meaning to what could otherwise be a vague notion. -- ric Fassin, cole normale sup rieure, Paris Mathy does not lose sight of the bigger picture of an age of disenchantment and writes about it in a clear and lucid way. Ultimately, he sees the mourning process not simply as a failure to work through the past but as a possible opportunity for the future. --Max Silverman, American Historical Review In Melancholy Politics, Mathy has somewhat revived or at least reinvented French intellectual history, and he does so by avowedly not writing intellectual history. Mathy is masterful on the details and maintains a litterateur's sense of the pleasures of the text. --Matt Matsuda, H-France Book Reviews [Mathy's] study provides highly readable and informative insight into contemporary waves in French thought and political culture. --Drew Flanagan, H-Net Reviews Melancholy Politics is a stimulating and enjoyable read. . . . [The book] is perhaps best viewed as a work of contemporary history infused with a healthy dose of memory studies theory, and should certainly be read by anyone with an interest in how a nation attempts to deal with its past. --Adam Timmins, Journal of Contemporary European Studies [Mathy's] study provides highly readable and informative insight into contemporary waves in French thought and political culture. --Drew Flanagan, H-Net Reviews [Mathy's] study provides highly readable and informative insight into contemporary waves in French thought and political culture. Drew Flanagan, H-Net Reviews Melancholy Politics is a stimulating and enjoyable read. . . .[The book] is perhaps best viewed as a work of contemporary history infused with a healthy dose of memory studies theory, and should certainly be read by anyone with an interest in how a nation attempts to deal with its past. --Adam TImmins, Journal of Contemporary European Studies Author InformationJean-Philippe Mathy is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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