How the French think : an affectionate portrait of an intellectual people /
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Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group,
2015
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Table of Contents:
- A yearning towards universality -- The skull of Descartes -- Darkness and light -- Landscapes of Utopia -- The ideals of science -- To the left, and to the right -- The sum of their parts -- Interlude: new paths to the present -- Freedom and domination -- Writing for everybody -- The end of history -- The closing of the French mind -- Anxiety and optimism.