 | French Resistance: The French-American Culture Wars Subjects: France -- Intellectual life -- American influences; United States -- Intellectual life -- French influences; United States -- Relations -- France; France -- Relations -- United States; Politics and culture; Consistently illuminating and often polemical, French Resistance focuses on recent transatlantic debates over critical theory, national identity, and multiculturalism.orStarting from well-publicized controversies such as the bicentennial of the French Revolution, the 1989 Affair of the Veil, or the more recent Sokal Affair, Jean-Philippe Mathy looks at how French and American national traditions have represented the other, and how different conceptions of liberalism, democratic pluralism, and republicanism figure in these representations. |
