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Proust, a Jewish Way
Marcel Proust once wrote, “There is no longer anybody, not even myself, since I cannot leave my bed, who will go along the Rue du Repos to visit the little Jewish cemetery where my grandfather, following a custom that he never understood, went for so many years to lay a stone on his parents’ grave.” Investigating the origin and significance of this statement, Antoine Compagnon offers new insight into the great author’s underappreciated Jewish side. Compagnon traces Proust’s ties to the French Jewish community, examining his relations with his mother’s successful and assimilated family, the Weils. He explores how French Jews read and responded to Proust’s masterpiece In Search o...
Milton Man and Thinker
The present volume, written by Anglo-French author Denis Saurat, will appeal to anyone "who wishes to know how the classics may be kept alive. It stands as one of the chief contributions thus far to the scholarship which over nearly a decade in Europe and America has been making a new person out of Milton." (The Nation magazine) This is the Second Edition, originally published in 1944, which includes a section that "brings new light on the history of Milton's ideas by a closer study of his English contemporaries, Robert Fludd and the Mortalists."
Propaganda, Gender, and Cultural Power
Propaganda, Gender, and Cultural Power tells the story of the gendered methods, policies, and institutions that contributed to the making of French cultural diplomacy in Britain, against the backdrop of war, changing Franco-British relations, European tensions and the global transformation of what 'foreign affairs' meant to states.
Transcendence and the Concrete
Jean Wahl (1888–1974), once considered by the likes of Georges Bataille, Gilles Deleuze, Emmanuel Levinas, and Gabriel Marcel to be among the greatest French philosophers, has today nearly been forgotten outside France. Yet his influence on French philosophical thought can hardly be overestimated. Levinas wrote that “during over a half century of teaching and research, [Wahl] was the life force of the academic, extra-academic, and even, to a degree anti-academic philosophy necessary to a great culture.” And Deleuze, for his part, commented that “Apart from Sartre, who remained caught none the less in the trap of the verb to be, the most important philosopher in France was Jean Wahl....
The New Age
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