Facing Postmodernity

Contemporary French Thought

By: Max Silverman

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Paperback | 18 March 1999 | Edition Number 1

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Contemporary French intellectual thought is now finding itself caught between a nostalgic longing for a unified republic of citizens and the awareness of the fragmentation and pluralism of contemporary society. This book discusses some of the major responses to postmodernity by contemporary French thinkers. In doing so, it covers many of the questions central to the postmodern debate, such as questions of history, representation, identity, ethics and community. Facing Postmodernity shows how the challenges which face French society and its intellectual thinkers today, the breaking up of the city, racism, the crisis of culture and new citizenship, are representative of the new conditions that all western democracies must now confront.

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..."the book's many strengths...include its accessible discussion of complex ideas, its fair-minded treatment of each side of a given issue, its many original insights into the nature of postmodernity, and its complete mastery of an impressive bibliography of French thought. Concluding optimistically that French ideas will play a vital role in "the reconstruction of 'the human' beyond the Enlightenment," "Facing Postmodernity is an indispensable source for anyone interested in comtemporary France and postmodernism.." -Michael F. Leruth, L'Esprit Createur, Spring 2001

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