After the Deluge: New Perspectives on the Intellectual and Cultural History of Postwar France: New Perspectives on Postwar French Intellectual and ... ... Francophone World and Postcolonial France)

Motivated by a desire to narrate and contextualize the deluge of French theory, After the Deluge showcases recent work by todays brightest scholars of French intellectual history that historicizes key debates, figures, and turning points in the postwar era of French thought. Relying on primary and archival sources, contributors examine, among other themes: left-wing critiques of the Left, the internationalizing of thought, the institutional and affective conditions of cultural life, and the religious imagination. They revive neglected debates and figures, and they explore the larger impact of political quarrels. In an afterword, preeminent French historian François Dosse heralds the arrival of a new generation, a historiographical sensibility that brings fresh, original perspectives and a passion for French history to the contemporary French intellectual arena. After the Deluge adds significant depth and breadth to our understanding of postwar French intellectual and cultural history.