ISBN: 9780271037837

The current cultural climate in France is often described as one of "déclinisme" or "sinistrose," a mixture of pessimism about the national future, nostalgia for the past, and a si… mais…

The current cultural climate in France is often described as one of "déclinisme" 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 The current cultural climate in France is often described as one of "déclinisme" 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 Lévi-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. Books, Family & Relationships~~Death Grief Bereavement, Melancholy-Politics~~Jean-Philippe-Mathy, 999999999, Melancholy Politics: Loss, Mourning, and Memory in Late Modern France, Jean-Philippe Mathy, 0271037830, Penn State University Press, , , , , Penn State University Press<

ISBN: 9780271037837

Hardback, [PU: Pennsylvania State University Press], A study of the cultural politics of loss and mourning in France from 1978 to the present. Focuses on national identity, secularism, Ja… mais…

Hardback, [PU: Pennsylvania State University Press], A study of the cultural politics of loss and mourning in France from 1978 to the present. Focuses on national identity, secularism, Jacobin republicanism, and political-cultural exceptionalism., French Revolution<

ISBN: 9780271037837

Hardback, [PU: Pennsylvania State University Press], A study of the cultural politics of loss and mourning in France from 1978 to the present. Focuses on national identity, secularism, Ja… mais…

Hardback, [PU: Pennsylvania State University Press], A study of the cultural politics of loss and mourning in France from 1978 to the present. Focuses on national identity, secularism, Jacobin republicanism, and political-cultural exceptionalism., French Revolution<

ISBN: 0271037830

Melancholy Politics Loss Mourning and Memory in Late Modern France Author :Jean Philippe Mathy 9780271037837 0271037830, [PU: Pennsylvania State University Press]

2011, ISBN: 9780271037837

Loss, Mourning, and Memory in Late Modern France, Buch, Hardcover, [PU: Pennsylvania State University Press], Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011