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A reexamination of 1970s France as a decade of intellectual, cultural, and political consequence, both then and now
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Richard Golsan
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
A work in English on the most important French trial of the late twentieth century.
The definitive work in English on the most important French trial of the late twentieth century.
In this comprehensive introduction, to French critic Rene Girard, Richard Golsan focuses on Girard’s theory of myth and its connections to his broader exploration of the origins of suffering and…
Richard J. Golsan
This study examines the continuing impact of the memory of the Vichy regime and World War II in France. It analyzes recent political and intellectual debates, trials and the passage…
The past fifteen years have witnessed the renewed presence of fascism in European political and cultural life. This title examines the resurgence of fascism from many angles, providing an essential…
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Explores the complexities of some of the most provocative episodes of Vichy’s curious persistence in France’s national consciousness.
Justice in Lyon is a comprehensive history of the trial for crimes against humanity of the Nazi Klaus Barbie.
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Focusing on the political commitments of three French writers who collaborated with the Vichy Regime and Nazi Germany during WWII, this book examines the notion of political commitment or engagement…
Pascal Bruckner
The sexual revolution is justly celebrated for the freedoms it brought. The author argues that the contradictions of modern love, our new freedoms have also brought new burdens and rules…
The contributors gathered together by Richard J. Golsan and Sarah M. Misemer in The Trial That Never Ends assess the contested legacy of Hannah Arendt’s famous book and the issues…
Irene Nemirovsky’s Suite Francaise and Jonathan Littell’s Les Bienveillantes constitute the two most important literary publishing events in France in the new millennium. Both novels have enjoyed enormous commercial and…
Number 133 in Yale French Studies takes a new look at the themes in Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano’s work
Alain Finkielkraut
Presents a collection of essays on the Balkan crisis and on European reaction to it. In opposition to many powerful figures in France, Alain Finkielkraut has largely supported the Croatian…
This work offers insights into two totalitarian regimes of the 20th century that have profoundly affected world history - Nazi Germany and the Stalinist era in the Soviet Union.
Examines the Holocaust, its origins in modern European thought and politics, and recent revisionist attempts to deny its full dimensions and, in some cases, its very existence as historical fact…
This book reevaluates the historical, political, and artistic legacies of twentieth-century France and the French-speaking world, proposing new formulations of the relationships between fiction, aesthetics, and politics for the present…
