Description
History of how, over many centuries, French thinkers have revolutionized European thought about knowledge, religion, politics, and society.
About the Author
Michael Moriarty is Drapers Professor of French at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Peterhouse. His publications include Taste and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century France (Cambridge, 1988); Roland Barthes (1991), Early Modern French Thought: The Age of Suspicion (2003); Fallen Nature, Fallen Selves: Early Modern French Thought II (2006: Book Prize of the Journal of the History of Philosophy), and Disguised Vices: Theories of Virtue in Early Modern French Thought (2011: Gapper Prize). He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques. Jeremy Jennings is Professor of Political Theory and Head of the School of Politics and Economics at King's College London. He was formerly Vincent Wright Professor at the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques in Paris. He has published extensively on the history of political thought and the role of intellectuals in France since the eighteenth century, most notably Revolution and the Republic: A History of Political Thought in France since the Eighteenth Century (2011: Enid McLeod Prize). He is a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques.
Reviews
'The Cambridge History of French Thought is much more than an overview of philosophy during the period since the Middle Ages ... this is a useful work that would make a valuable addition to any serious university library.' R. W. Lemmons, Choice
Book Information
ISBN 9781107163676
Author Michael Moriarty
Format Hardback
Page Count 598
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 970g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 158mm * 37mm