Promotional Information

"Lawrence D. Kritzman and his team of expert sous-chefs have prepared a sumptuous buffet of ideas that will nourish and delight the most discerning of intellectual palates. This splendid collection of essays on virtually every facet of twentieth-century French culture is a three-star feast." -- Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley, author of Songs of Experience: Modern American and European Variations on a Universal Theme

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments List of Contributors Select Chronology Introduction Part I: Movements and Currents Part II: Themes Part III: Intellectuals Part IV: Dissemination Alphabetical List of Articles Index

About the Author

Lawrence D. Kritzman is the Pat and John Rosenwald Research Professor in the Arts and Sciences and professor of French and comparative literature at Dartmouth College. He is the author of The Rhetoric of Sexuality and the Literature of the French Renaissance and Columbia's forthcoming The Fabulous Imagination: On Montaigne's Essays. He is also the editor of the European Perspectives Series, published by Columbia University Press, and has written extensively on French intellectual thought, literature and psychoanalysis, as well as literary self-portraiture.

Reviews

"Both researchers and browsers will delight in this authoritative compendium of articles on France's intellectual century." -- Library Journal "Massive and steady... a patchwork of colorful characters, abstract figures, dense superimpositions." -- France Today " The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought is a well-designed and well-executed volume." -- American Reference Books Annual "Creative in organization, innovative in choice of themes, and unsurpassed in quality... a volume without parallel." -- Andrew Sobanet, French Forum