Certain Ideas Of France
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Certain Ideas Of France
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Author : H. L. Wesseling
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2002-06-30
Certain Ideas Of France written by H. L. Wesseling and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-06-30 with History categories.
The title of this book is, of course, inspired by the famous opening words of General de Gaulle's Memoirs of the Second World War: All my life I have thought of France in a certain way. Wesseling brings together his essays dealing with a great variety of subjects such as culture, society, politics, and diplomacy, with one section devoted entirely to French historians. The first section contains an chapter on the famous painter Ary Scheffer and the France of his time, that is to say the first half of the 19th century. The second chapter continues this theme and deals with Émile Zola and the Paris of the Second Empire. Two other chapters discuss aspects of the Third Republic, sports and students, respectively. The second section is devoted to French intellectuals. It offers the first in-depth analysis of the group of intellectuals that supported Zola and Dreyfus. Chapter six deals with one of the great literary figures of the interwar period—and later a notorious collaborator—Robert Brasillach. Chapter seven contains a vivid sketch of the life and work of the famous French intellectual Raymond Aron. The third section is devoted to politics and diplomacy. French foreign policy is discussed both in its long-term perspective as well as more specifically in the period of Charles de Gaulle. De Gaulle's idea of France is compared with that of an author by whom he was greatly influenced, Charles Péguy. Finally, there is a section on French history writing, including two biographical essays, one about Gabriel Hanotaux, the once famous but now nearly forgotten historian who became Minister of Foreign Affairs, and another on Fernand Braudel, the great contemporary French historian and close friend of Wesseling. Of particular interest to scholars, students, and other researchers involved with French history, the history of ideas, and European historiography.
The Social Political Ideas Of Some Great French Thinkers Of The Age Of Reason
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Author : Fossey John Cobb Hearnshaw
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
The Social Political Ideas Of Some Great French Thinkers Of The Age Of Reason written by Fossey John Cobb Hearnshaw and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with France categories.
A Certain Idea Of France
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Author : Phillip H. Gordon
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1993-04-05
A Certain Idea Of France written by Phillip H. Gordon and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-04-05 with History categories.
As France begins to confront the new challenges of the post-Cold War era, the time has come to examine how French security policy has evolved since Charles de Gaulle set it on an independent course in the 1960s. Philip Gordon shows that the Gaullist model, contrary to widely held beliefs, has lived on--but that its inherent inconsistencies have grown more acute with increasing European unification, the diminishing American military role in Europe, and related strains on French military budgets. The question today is whether the Gaullist legacy will enable a strong and confident France to play a full role in Europe's new security arrangements or whether France, because of its will to independence, is destined to play an isolated, national role. Gordon analyzes military doctrines, strategies, and budgets from the 1960s to the 1990s, and also the evolution of French policy from the early debates about NATO and the European Community to the Persian Gulf War. He reveals how and why Gaullist ideas have for so long influenced French security policy and examines possible new directions for France in an increasingly united but potentially unstable Europe.
A Certain Idea Of France
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Author : Julian Jackson
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2018-06-18
A Certain Idea Of France written by Julian Jackson and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL TIMES, TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Masterly ... awesome reading ... an outstanding biography' Max Hastings, Sunday Times The definitive biography of the greatest French statesman of modern times In six weeks in the early summer of 1940, France was over-run by German troops and quickly surrendered. The French government of Marshal Pétain sued for peace and signed an armistice. One little-known junior French general, refusing to accept defeat, made his way to England. On 18 June he spoke to his compatriots over the BBC, urging them to rally to him in London. 'Whatever happens, the flame of French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished.' At that moment, Charles de Gaulle entered into history. For the rest of the war, de Gaulle frequently bit the hand that fed him. He insisted on being treated as the true embodiment of France, and quarrelled violently with Churchill and Roosevelt. He was prickly, stubborn, aloof and self-contained. But through sheer force of personality and bloody-mindedness he managed to have France recognised as one of the victorious Allies, occupying its own zone in defeated Germany. For ten years after 1958 he was President of France's Fifth Republic, which he created and which endures to this day. His pursuit of 'a certain idea of France' challenged American hegemony, took France out of NATO and twice vetoed British entry into the European Community. His controversial decolonization of Algeria brought France to the brink of civil war and provoked several assassination attempts. Julian Jackson's magnificent biography reveals this the life of this titanic figure as never before. It draws on a vast range of published and unpublished memoirs and documents - including the recently opened de Gaulle archives - to show how de Gaulle achieved so much during the War when his resources were so astonishingly few, and how, as President, he put a medium-rank power at the centre of world affairs. No previous biography has depicted his paradoxes so vividly. Much of French politics since his death has been about his legacy, and he remains by far the greatest French leader since Napoleon.
The Social Political Ideas Of Some Great French Thinkers Of The Age Of Reason
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Author : Fossey John Cobb Hearnshaw
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
The Social Political Ideas Of Some Great French Thinkers Of The Age Of Reason written by Fossey John Cobb Hearnshaw and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with France categories.
Republican Ideas And The Liberal Tradition In France 1870 1914
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Author : John Anthony Scott
language : en
Publisher: Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law, 573
Release Date : 1951
Republican Ideas And The Liberal Tradition In France 1870 1914 written by John Anthony Scott and has been published by Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law, 573 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1951 with History categories.
Sets forth some of the leading ideas produced by the French republican movement in the period from 1870 until the opening of World War l and attempts to trace their origin, evolution, and interrelationships.
The Impact Of The French Revolution On Turkey
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Author : Bernard Lewis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1953
The Impact Of The French Revolution On Turkey written by Bernard Lewis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1953 with France categories.
The Modern French Method
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Author : Joseph D. Gaillard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1884
The Modern French Method written by Joseph D. Gaillard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1884 with French language categories.
A Certain Idea Of Europe
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Author : Craig Parsons
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-07-05
A Certain Idea Of Europe written by Craig Parsons and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-05 with Political Science categories.
The quasi-federal European Union stands out as the major exception in the thinly institutionalized world of international politics. Something has led Europeans—and only Europeans—beyond the nation-state to a fundamentally new political architecture. Craig Parsons argues in A Certain Idea of Europe that this "something" was a particular set of ideas generated in Western Europe after the Second World War. In Parsons's view, today's European Union reflects the ideological (and perhaps visionary) project of an elite minority. His book traces the progressive victory of this project in France, where the battle over European institutions erupted most divisively. Drawing on archival research and extensive interviews with French policymakers, the author carefully traces a fifty-year conflict between radically different European plans. Only through aggressive leadership did the advocates of a supranational "community" Europe succeed at building the EU and binding their opponents within it. Parsons puts the causal impact of ideas, and their binding effects through institutions, at the center of his book. In so doing he presents a strong logic of "social construction"—a sharp departure from other accounts of EU history that downplay the role of ideas and ideology.
Radicalism In French Culture
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Author : Niilo Kauppi
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-09-17
Radicalism In French Culture written by Niilo Kauppi and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-17 with Social Science categories.
An invisible pattern draws together most studies dealing with French cultural radicalism in the 1960s with intellectual creation reduced to individual creation and the role of semiotic and social factors that influence intellectual innovation minimized. Sociological approaches often see a more or less external link between social location and intellectual production but, because of their structural approach, they are incapable of taking into account unique historical circumstances, the crucial role of personal impulses, and more importantly the semiotic logic of ideas as conditions of innovative thinking. This ground-breaking book will further an internal sociological analysis of ideas and styles of thought. It will show that the defining but largely neglected feature of what has become "French theory" was a collective mind and style of thought, an explosive but fragile mixture of scientific and political radicalism that rather quickly watered down to academic orthodoxy. For some time, radical intellectuals succeeded in producing ideas that were perfectly in tune with the demands of the consumers, mostly the young university audience. Ideas were used as part of radical posture that was set in opposition to the establishment and "those in power". Ideas could not be too empirical or verifiable, and they had to shock. It is not surprising that a slew of new sciences and concepts were invented to indicate this radical posture. The central argument of this study is that ideas become "power-ideas" only if they succeed in uniting individual and collective psychic investment in powerful social networks with significant institutional and political backing. These conditions were met in the French context for a certain specific period of time. From roughly the mid-1960s to the beginning of the 1970s, radical intellectuals such as Roland Barthes, Pierre Bourdieu, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva developed a host of new ideas, concepts and theories, a number of which have subsequently been labelled as French theory.