France Of Today

Author : Philippe Portier,Jean-Paul Willaime
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000593303

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Religion and Secularism in France Today by Philippe Portier,Jean-Paul Willaime Pdf

This volume explores the dynamic life of religion and politics in France. The separation of church and state and the autonomy of school education from religion are the two fundamental pillars of France as a secular republic. The historical construction of French secularism (laïcité) was particularly marked by the strong opposition between the state and the Catholic church. However, the religious disaffiliation of a significant proportion of the French strengthened state secularism, which gradually became more consensual – despite some persisting tensions in the school context. Yet, in the last decades, several factors have revived public debate on laicity: the quarrel over ‘sects’ and new religious movements; controversies over Islam, today the second-largest religion in France; and, more recently, dispute over bioethics. Faced with these challenges, laicity as well as the religious groups involved have been changing. The authors of this book, ranking amongst the best French experts in the study of religion and secularism, introduce the reader to a living and lived laicity influenced by the social and religious dynamics of contemporary France. They demonstrate that the configurations of French secularism are both more flexible and complex than they appear to be. The volume investigates the extent to which the French idea of secularization has been pushed to be more thorough and radical in its interaction with its other European counterparts. A key work on French political thought, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of international politics, political philosophy, political sociology, and religion and politics.

Author : Alan Montefiore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1983-01-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521296730

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Philosophy in France Today by Alan Montefiore Pdf

Eleven leading contemporary French philosophers give here more or less direct presentations and exemplifications of their work. All the essays, with one exception, were specifically written for this volume and for an English-speaking readership - the exception is the first publication anywhere of Jacques Derrida's defence of his thèse d'état in 1980, based on his published works. As a collection the essays convey the style, tone and preoccupations, as well as the range and diversity, of French philosophical thinking as it is being practised today. They will stimulate and inform the rapidly growing interest in this area outside France.

Author : Erik Cohen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004207530

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The Jews of France Today by Erik Cohen Pdf

Based on a national, empirical survey, this book presents a rich portrait of the Jews of France today. An expanded translation of a French edition, the book explores the demographics, identity, communal participation, social issues and values of this community.

Author : Richard J. Golsan
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498550338

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The Vichy Past in France Today by Richard J. Golsan Pdf

The Vichy Past in France Today: Corruptions of Memory is an interdisciplinary study examining the continuing impact of the memory of Vichy and World War II in French politics, literature, intellectual discourse and debates, and the law. It argues that despite multiple efforts in all of these areas to come to terms with France’s World War II past and to fulfill a “duty to memory” to Vichy’s Jewish victims, the nation is still not reconciled to the so-called “Dark Years,” even seventy years after the Liberation. Indeed the Vichy past “occupies” important recent works of literature, inflects much political discussion and debate, often serving as a metaphor for political (and moral) evil. Its legacies include the passage of problematic laws that dangerously distort and simplify complex historical realities. Chapter I examines the historical and legal legacies of the 1990s trials for crimes against humanity and traces their impact on the so-called “memorial laws” of the new century. Chapter II revisits the 2002 presidential elections in France and the impact of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s first round victory on intellectual and cultural debate. Chapter III explores Alain Badiou’s controversial characterization of Sarkozy’s presidential victory as a return of “Petainism” in The Meaning of Sarkozy. The discussion is cast against the backdrop of Badiou’s “radical” political thought and Sarkozy’s political uses and misuses of the World War II past. Chapter IV examines the controversy surrounding the publication of Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones (2006) and its morally and historically problematic portrayal of an unrepentant Nazi and SS officer. Chapter V discusses Yannick Haenel’s fictional recreation of the Polish resistance hero Jan Karski (The Messenger, 2009) in his novel by that name, and the polemics between the novel’s author and the maker of the classic Holocaust documentary film, Shoah, Claude Lanzmann. The Conclusion first explores the ways in which the memory of Vichy inflects literary and political reflections on the recent terrorist attacks in France. It also examines strategies proposed by French philosophers for moving beyond the “impasse” of Vichy’s memory in France before concluding with a different strategy proposed by the author for the French nation to move beyond the memory of the Dark Years.

Author : John Ardagh
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0140100989

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France Today by John Ardagh Pdf

John Ardagh examines the lives and attitudes of French people as they look to the future. The great changes that have taken place since the last War are covered, in particular the record of the Socialists in power from 1981- 1986 and the right-of-centre government which followed them.

Author : Carol Sanders
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1993-04-08
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521396956

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French Today by Carol Sanders Pdf

French Today is a profile of the French language in its social context. British and French linguists examine trends in French throughout the French-speaking world, and address issues around prescriptivism, gender and language, and regional languages and dialects. The collection includes overviews of work done in particular areas and deeper analyses of sociolinguistic questions. One theme is how to represent and interpret data relating to language varieties that have been marginalised. Another concerns the ways in which French is adapting to the future, whether as a language of new technology, or as a vehicular language on the continent. All chapters of this book are in English, with examples and quotations in French, and a mixture of references given in both languages. At the end of each chapter, there are also texts in French, serving as illustration and as pointers to further reading.

Author : John ARDAGH
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:650098150

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France Today by John ARDAGH Pdf

Author : David Howarth,Georgios Varouxakis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781134659197

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Contemporary France by David Howarth,Georgios Varouxakis Pdf

At least since the French Revolution, France has the peculair distinction of simultaneously fascinating, charming and exasperating its neighbours and foreign observers. Contemporary France provides an essential introduction for students of French politics and society, exploring contemporary developments while placing them in a deeper historical, intellectual, cultural and social context that makes for insightful analysis. Thus, chapters on France's economic policy and welfare state, its foreign and European policies and its political movements and recent institutional developments are informed by an analysis of the country's unique political and institutional traditions, distinct forms of nationalism and citizenship, dynamic intellectual life and recent social trends. Summaries of key political, economic and social movements and events are displayed as exhibits.

Author : Paul A. Silverstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Black people
ISBN : 0745337740

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Postcolonial France by Paul A. Silverstein Pdf

Annotation France has in recent years emerged as a bellwether for worldwide anxieties around postcolonialism and multiculturalism, and the rise of right-wing populism. This book offers a detailed exploration of the dynamics and dilemmas of the present moment of crisis and hope in France through an exploration of a number of recent moral panics. Paul Silverstein here examines urban racial violence, female Islamic dress and male public prayer, anti-system gangster rap, and sports - all of which have triggered major national debates over France's multicultural future.

Author : John ARDAGH
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:650098150

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France Today by John ARDAGH Pdf

Author : Barrett Wendell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : France
ISBN : UCLA:31158006104177

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The France of Today by Barrett Wendell Pdf

Author : A. Judge
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230286177

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Linguistic Policies and the Survival of Regional Languages in France and Britain by A. Judge Pdf

It was traditionally assumed that a single official language was necessary for the wellbeing of the state, particularly in France and Britain. This assumption is now questioned, and regional languages are making, in some cases, an impressive comeback. This book analyses a range of languages' development, decline and efforts at regeneration.

Author : Francois Proulx
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487532185

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Victims of the Book by Francois Proulx Pdf

Victims of the Book uncovers a long-neglected but once widespread subgenre: the fin-de-siècle novel of formation in France. In the final decades of the nineteenth century, social commentators insistently characterized excessive reading as an emasculating illness that afflicted French youth. Novels about and geared toward adolescent male readers were imbued with a deep worry over young Frenchmen’s masculinity, as evidenced by titles like Crise de jeunesse (Youth in Crisis, 1897), La Crise virile (Crisis of Virility, 1898), La Vie stérile (A Sterile Life, 1892), and La Mortelle Impuissance (Deadly Impotence, 1903). In this book, François Proulx examines a wide panorama of these novels, as well as polemical essays, pedagogical articles, and medical treatises on the perceived threats posed by young Frenchmen’s reading habits. Fin-de-siècle writers responded to this pathologization of reading with a profusion of novels addressed to young male readers, paradoxically proposing their own novels as potential cures. In the early twentieth century, this corpus was critically revisited by a new generation of writers. Victims of the Book shows how André Gide and Marcel Proust in particular reworked the fin-de-siècle paradox to subvert cultural norms about literature and masculinity, proposing instead a queer pact between writer and reader.

Author : Patrick Boucheron,Stéphane Gerson
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 993 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781590519424

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France in the World by Patrick Boucheron,Stéphane Gerson Pdf

This dynamic collection presents a new way of writing national and global histories while developing our understanding of France in the world through short, provocative essays that range from prehistoric frescoes to Coco Chanel to the terrorist attacks of 2015. Bringing together an impressive group of established and up-and-coming historians, this bestselling history conceives of France not as a fixed, rooted entity, but instead as a place and an idea in flux, moving beyond all borders and frontiers, shaped by exchanges and mixtures. Presented in chronological order from 34,000 BC to 2015, each chapter covers a significant year from its own particular angle--the marriage of a Viking leader to a Carolingian princess proposed by Charles the Fat in 882, the Persian embassy's reception at the court of Louis XIV in 1715, the Chilean coup d'état against President Salvador Allende in 1973 that mobilized a generation of French left-wing activists. France in the World combines the intellectual rigor of an academic work with the liveliness and readability of popular history. With a brand-new preface aimed at an international audience, this English-language edition will be an essential resource for Francophiles and scholars alike.

Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780500776445

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France: A Short History by Jeremy Black Pdf

Artists, martyrs, kings, revolutionaries: Frances sense of national identity is inextricably linked to its dramatic history, which fascinates the world and attracts millions each year to visit its chateaux and cathedrals, boulevards and vineyards. Ancient roots allied to a social, political and military history that has witnessed revolution, conflict and occupation mean that France holds a unique position in the modern world. In this short, easy-to-digest history of a vast subject, Jeremy Black succinctly narrates how Frances past has created its distinct character. Country and destination, nation and idea, France has an incomparable cultural legacy, and exerts a powerful artistic, intellectual and political influence across the globe. Blacks vivid take on history emphasizes the unexpected nature of events and unpredictable outcomes on a fragmented country, from the prehistoric cave paintings of Lascaux to the origins of Gothic architecture, from Monet and Degas to the Lumière brothers, and from the cataclysm of the 1789 Revolution through the countercultural student protests of 1968 to todays gilets jaunes. Blacks concise, insightful tour of the key historical moments and vibrant personalities that shaped France provides an indispensable guide to understanding the country today.