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Repeating Revolutions

The French Revolution and the Algerian War

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Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of France
Repeating Revolutions examines how activists, intellectuals, social scientists, and historians looked to France’s Revolutionary past to negotiate Algeria’s struggle for decolonization from the 1930s to the 1960s.The French Empire justified their claims over Algeria in part through messages of universal progress marked by the political visions tied to the French Revolution. Supporters of Algerian ... Read more

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Repeating Revolutions examines how activists, intellectuals, social scientists, and historians looked to France’s Revolutionary past to negotiate Algeria’s struggle for decolonization from the 1930s to the 1960s.The French Empire justified their claims over Algeria in part through messages of universal progress marked by the political visions tied to the French Revolution. Supporters of Algerian
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The Birth of Solidarity

The History of the French Welfare State

by François Ewald ...

Translated by Timothy Scott Johnson ...

François Ewald's landmark The Birth of Solidarity—first published in French in 1986, revised in 1996, with the revised edition appearing here in English for the first time—is one of the most important historical and philosophical studies of the rise of the welfare state. Theorizing the origins of social insurance, Ewald shows how the growing problem of industrial accidents in France throughout the ... Read more

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François Ewald's landmark The Birth of Solidarity—first published in French in 1986, revised in 1996, with the revised edition appearing here in English for the first time—is one of the most important historical and philosophical studies of the rise of the welfare state. Theorizing the origins of social insurance, Ewald shows how the growing problem of industrial accidents in France throughout the
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The Rebel's Clinic

The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

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One of The New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2024One of the Washington Post's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024**Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyNamed a best book of 2024 by The New Yorker | Vulture** | Los Angeles Review of Books | Foreign Affairs | The New RepublicLonglisted for the 2024 Baillie Gif... ... Read more

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One of The New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2024One of the Washington Post's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024**Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyNamed a best book of 2024 by The New Yorker | Vulture** | Los Angeles Review of Books | Foreign Affairs | The New RepublicLonglisted for the 2024 Baillie Gif...
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Past Imperfect

French Intellectuals, 1944-1956

by Tony Judt ...

A "marvelously readable" critique of Sartre, Camus, de Beauvoir, and other French postwar intellectuals that "consistently entertains and provokes" ( The Washington Post).The uniquely prominent role of French intellectuals in European cultural and political life following World War II is the focus of this book by the acclaimed author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. Tony Judt analyzes ... Read more

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A "marvelously readable" critique of Sartre, Camus, de Beauvoir, and other French postwar intellectuals that "consistently entertains and provokes" ( The Washington Post).The uniquely prominent role of French intellectuals in European cultural and political life following World War II is the focus of this book by the acclaimed author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. Tony Judt analyzes
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Rednecks and Barbarians

Uniting the White and Racialized Working Class

by Houria Bouteldja ...

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“Houria Bouteldja is one of the most interesting antiracist decolonial activists. Known for her incisive analysis, Bouteldja offers a strong argument for unity between ‘rednecks’ and ‘barbarians’” Françoise Vergès, author of A Programme of Absolute Disorder“Bouteldja throws all our certainties into the air, and with brilliant precision, reassembles them. Clear and uncompromising, she points ... Read more

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“Houria Bouteldja is one of the most interesting antiracist decolonial activists. Known for her incisive analysis, Bouteldja offers a strong argument for unity between ‘rednecks’ and ‘barbarians’” Françoise Vergès, author of A Programme of Absolute Disorder“Bouteldja throws all our certainties into the air, and with brilliant precision, reassembles them. Clear and uncompromising, she points
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Frantz Fanon

A Biography

by David Macey ...

Born in Martinique, Frantz Fanon (1925–61) trained as a psychiatrist in Lyon before taking up a post in colonial Algeria. He had already experienced racism as a volunteer in the Free French Army, in which he saw combat at the end of the Second World War. In Algeria, Fanon came into contact with the Front de Libération Nationale, whose ruthless struggle for independence was met with exceptional ... Read more

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Born in Martinique, Frantz Fanon (1925–61) trained as a psychiatrist in Lyon before taking up a post in colonial Algeria. He had already experienced racism as a volunteer in the Free French Army, in which he saw combat at the end of the Second World War. In Algeria, Fanon came into contact with the Front de Libération Nationale, whose ruthless struggle for independence was met with exceptional
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How the French Think

An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People

by Sudhir Hazareesingh ...

An award-winning historian presents an absorbing account of the French mind, shedding light on France's famous tradition of intellectual lifeWhy are the French such an exceptional nation? Why do they think they are so exceptional? The French take pride in the fact that their history and culture have decisively shaped the values and ideals of the modern world. French ideas are no less distinct in ... Read more

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An award-winning historian presents an absorbing account of the French mind, shedding light on France's famous tradition of intellectual lifeWhy are the French such an exceptional nation? Why do they think they are so exceptional? The French take pride in the fact that their history and culture have decisively shaped the values and ideals of the modern world. French ideas are no less distinct in
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Nation, Society and the State

The Reconciliation of Palestinian and Jewish Nationhood

by Dr. Abraham Weizfeld ...

This work treats the European political philosophy that has engendered the Nation-State concept -- considered to be the logical evolution of human history as a linear periodization into the Modern State. This Modern State concept is treated as the end of history in liberal democratic theory, in spite of it remaining a European phenomenon. Where it has been imposed beyond the European political ... Read more

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This work treats the European political philosophy that has engendered the Nation-State concept -- considered to be the logical evolution of human history as a linear periodization into the Modern State. This Modern State concept is treated as the end of history in liberal democratic theory, in spite of it remaining a European phenomenon. Where it has been imposed beyond the European political
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After the Deluge

New Perspectives on the Intellectual and Cultural History of Postwar France

by François Dosse, Michael Behrent, David Berry, Lucia Bonfreschi, Warren Breckman, Michael Scott Christofferson, Stuart Elden, William Gallois, Ron Haas, Ethan Kleinberg, Samuel Moyn, Philippe Poirrier, Christophe Premat, Alan D. Schrift ...

Series series After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
Madame de Pompadour's famous quip, "Après nous, le deluge," serves as fitting inspiration for this lively discussion of postwar French intellectual and cultural life. Over the past thirty years, North American and European scholarship has been significantly transformed by the absorption of poststructuralist and postmodernist theories from French thinkers. But Julian Bourg's seamlessly edited ... Read more

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Madame de Pompadour's famous quip, "Après nous, le deluge," serves as fitting inspiration for this lively discussion of postwar French intellectual and cultural life. Over the past thirty years, North American and European scholarship has been significantly transformed by the absorption of poststructuralist and postmodernist theories from French thinkers. But Julian Bourg's seamlessly edited
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Colonial Culture in France since the Revolution

Edited by Pascal Blanchard, Sandrine Lemaire, Nicolas Bancel, Dominic Thomas ...

This landmark collection by an international group of scholars and public intellectuals represents a major reassessment of French colonial culture and how it continues to inform thinking about history, memory, and identity. This reexamination of French colonial culture, provides the basis for a revised understanding of its cultural, political, and social legacy and its lasting impact on ... Read more

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This landmark collection by an international group of scholars and public intellectuals represents a major reassessment of French colonial culture and how it continues to inform thinking about history, memory, and identity. This reexamination of French colonial culture, provides the basis for a revised understanding of its cultural, political, and social legacy and its lasting impact on
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Postcoloniality

The French Dimension

by Margaret A. Majumdar ...

“Postcolonial theory” has become one of the key issues of scholarly debates worldwide; debates, so the author argues, which have become rather sterile and are characterized by a repetitive reworking of old hackneyed issues, focussing on cultural questions of language and identity in particular. Gradually, a gulf has emerged between Anglophone and Francophone thinking in this area. The author ... Read more

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“Postcolonial theory” has become one of the key issues of scholarly debates worldwide; debates, so the author argues, which have become rather sterile and are characterized by a repetitive reworking of old hackneyed issues, focussing on cultural questions of language and identity in particular. Gradually, a gulf has emerged between Anglophone and Francophone thinking in this area. The author
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Marxism and the French Left

Studies on Labour and Politics in France, 1830-1981

by Tony Judt ...

Unlike most books, which treat labor, Socialist and Communist history separately and view French Marxism as a self-contained philosophical phenomenon, Marxism and the French Left offers a refreshingly different approach to the subject. Judt emphasizes the complex and interwoven themes that unify the topics of his essays to construct a distinctive and original interpretation of French left-wing ... Read more

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Unlike most books, which treat labor, Socialist and Communist history separately and view French Marxism as a self-contained philosophical phenomenon, Marxism and the French Left offers a refreshingly different approach to the subject. Judt emphasizes the complex and interwoven themes that unify the topics of his essays to construct a distinctive and original interpretation of French left-wing
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