{"product_id":"the-cambridge-history-of-french-thought-paperback-softback-9781009668620","title":"The Cambridge History of French Thought (Paperback \/ softback) 9781009668620","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Cambridge History of French Thought\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHistory of how, over many centuries, French thinkers have revolutionized European thought about knowledge, religion, politics, and society.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMichael Moriarty (Edited by), Jeremy Jennings (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009668620, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 19 June 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e590 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.3 x 3.6 cm, 0.89 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Everyone, it is safe to say, will learn something from this copious collection.' Michael Sonenscher, History of European Ideas\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFrench thinkers have revolutionized European thought about knowledge, religion, politics, and society. Delivering a comprehensive history of thought in France from the Middle Ages to the present, this book follows themes and developments of thought across the centuries. It provides readers with studies of both systematic thinkers and those who operate less systematically, through essays or fragments, and places them all in their many contexts. Informed by up-to-date research, these accessible chapters are written by prominent experts in their fields who investigate key concepts in non-technical language. Chapters feature treatments of specific thinkers as individuals including Voltaire, Rousseau, Descartes and Derrida, but also more general movements and schools of thought from humanism to liberalism, via the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Marxism, and feminism. Furthermore, the influence of gender, race, empire and slavery are investigated to offer a broad and fulfilling account of French thought throughout the ages.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction Michael Moriarty\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Middle Ages to 1789: 1. Medieval French thought David Luscombe\u003cbr\u003e 2. Humanist culture in Renaissance France Ingrid De Smet\u003cbr\u003e 3. Reformers and dissidents Neil Kenny\u003cbr\u003e 4. Rabelais John O'Brien\u003cbr\u003e 5. Moral theories: Aristotelianism and Neostoicism Ullrich Langer\u003cbr\u003e 6. Pyrrhonism John O'Brien\u003cbr\u003e 7. Ramus Raphaële Garrod\u003cbr\u003e 8. Montaigne John O'Brien\u003cbr\u003e 9. Demonology Timothy Chesters\u003cbr\u003e 10. Political and legal thought Sophie E. B. Nichols\u003cbr\u003e 11. Linguistic and literary thought: mid-sixteenth to mid-seventeenth centuries John D. Lyons\u003cbr\u003e 12. French scholastics in the seventeenth century Roger Ariew\u003cbr\u003e 13. Sceptics and freethinkers Isabelle Moreau\u003cbr\u003e 14. Descartes Gary Hatfield\u003cbr\u003e 15. Augustinianism Michael Moriarty\u003cbr\u003e 16. Spirituality Richard Parish\u003cbr\u003e 17. Pascal Emma Gilby\u003cbr\u003e 18. Cartesianism Steven Nadler\u003cbr\u003e 19. Bayle Ruth Whelan\u003cbr\u003e 20. Ethical, political, and social thought Michael Moriarty\u003cbr\u003e 21. Aesthetics: ancients and moderns Richard Scholar\u003cbr\u003e 22. The querelle des femmes Rebecca Wilkin\u003cbr\u003e 23. The Enlightenment Jenny Mander\u003cbr\u003e 24. Voltaire John Leigh\u003cbr\u003e 25. Diderot Marian Hobson\u003cbr\u003e 26. Rousseau Michael Moriarty\u003cbr\u003e 27. Philosophy and religion: deism, atheism, materialism Caroline Warman\u003cbr\u003e 28. Enlightenment political and social thought A. M. R. De Dijn\u003cbr\u003e 29. The continent of history David McCallam\u003cbr\u003e 30. Enlightenment aesthetic thought Kate E. Tunstall\u003cbr\u003e 31. The Enlightenment and gender Judith Still\u003cbr\u003e 32. Colonialism and slavery Jenny Mander\u003cbr\u003e Part II. From 1789 to the Present Day: 33. French thought on the eve of the Revolution and after Jeremy Jennings\u003cbr\u003e 34. Political thought in the nineteenth century Jeremy Jennings\u003cbr\u003e 35. The Paris School of liberal political economy David Hart\u003cbr\u003e 36. Romanticism Alison Finch\u003cbr\u003e 37. Victor Cousin and eclecticism Benjamin Bacle\u003cbr\u003e 38. Nineteenth-century religious thought Robert Priest\u003cbr\u003e 39. Auguste Comte and positivism Mary Pickering\u003cbr\u003e 40. Race and empire in ninteenth-century France Emmanuelle Saada\u003cbr\u003e 41. Philosophy: epistemological debates and Bergson Daniela S. Barberis\u003cbr\u003e 42. Nation and nationalism Michael Sutton\u003cbr\u003e 43. Twentieth-century French Catholic thought Michael Sutton\u003cbr\u003e 44. Writing modern French history Philip Whalen\u003cbr\u003e 45. Sartre and the art of living with paradox Thomas R. Flynn\u003cbr\u003e 46. Marxism versus humanism Knox Peden\u003cbr\u003e 47. French feminist thought in the twentieth century Diana Holmes\u003cbr\u003e 48. Anticolonialism Emile Chabal\u003cbr\u003e 49. The new liberalism Daniel J. Mahoney\u003cbr\u003e 50. Michel Foucault Michael C. Behrent\u003cbr\u003e 51. Jacques Derrida and deconstruction Paul Rekret\u003cbr\u003e 52. Sociology Daniela S. Barberis\u003cbr\u003e 53. Literary theory Patrick French\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: the end of French thought? 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