Lawrence D. Kritzman ist ein distinguierter Professor für Französisch und vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft. Seine wissenschaftliche Arbeit befasst sich eingehend mit der Analyse literarischer Werke und Gedanken, insbesondere im Bereich der französischen Literatur und Philosophie. Kritzmans Forschung konzentriert sich oft auf die imaginativen Prozesse, die Autoren in ihren Schriften anwenden. Sein Ansatz bietet den Lesern aufschlussreiche Perspektiven auf literarisches Schaffen und dessen intellektuelle Grundlagen.
The third and final volume in Pierre Nora's award-winning (for Volume I) REALMS OF MEMORY, which includes groundbreaking discussions of France's past, powerfully demonstrates how a nation can both recover and rediscover its identity through remembrance, how rewriting history can forge new paradigms of cultural identity, and how meanings attached to an event can be as significant as the event itself. 146 illustrations.
This valuable reference is an authoritative guide to 20th century French thought. It considers the intellectual figures, movements and publications that helped define fields as diverse as history, psychoanalysis, film, philosophy, and economics.
Politics, Philosophy, Culture contains a rich selection of interviews and other writings by the late Michel Foucault. Drawing upon his revolutionary concept of power as well as his critique of the institutions that organize social life, Foucault discusses literature, music, and the power of art while also examining concrete issues such as the Left in contemporary France, the social security system, the penal system, homosexuality, madness, and the Iranian Revolution.