Melancholy Politics: Loss, Mourning, And Memory In Late Modern France
Penn State University Press
ISBN13:
9780271037844
$44.76
The current cultural climate in France is often described as one of &d&éclinisme& or &sinistrose,& a mixture of pessimism about the national future, nostalgia for the past, and a sinister sense of irreversible decline concerning the present. The notion of &democratic melancholia& has become widely popular, cropping up time and again in academic papers and newspaper articles. In Melancholy Politics, Jean-Philippe Mathy examines the development of this disenchanted mood in the works of prominent French philosophers, historians, and sociologists since the beginning of the 1980s. This period represents a significant turning point in French intellectual life, as the legacy of major postwar and sixties theorists such as L&évi-Strauss, Derrida, and Foucault was increasingly challenged by a younger generation of authors who repudiated both Marxism and structuralism. The book is not a classic intellectual or cultural history of post-1968 France, but rather a contribution to the understanding of the present&a collection of soundings into what remains largely a complex, ongoing process.
- | Author: Jean-Philippe Mathy
- | Publisher: Penn State University Press
- | Publication Date: Apr 15, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 250 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback/History
- | ISBN-10: 0271037849
- | ISBN-13: 9780271037844
- Author:
- Jean-Philippe Mathy
- Publisher:
- Penn State University Press
- Publication Date:
- Apr 15, 2016
- Number of pages:
- 250 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback/History
- ISBN-10:
- 0271037849
- ISBN-13:
- 9780271037844