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Extreme-Occident: French Intellectuals and America

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What does "America" mean to French intellectuals? Is it a postmodern ideal situated beyond history and metaphysics? A source of spiritual decadence that threatens the European tradition? Or is it "Extr???me-Occident," the Far Western site that gives historical reality to the utopias of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment? Jean-Philippe Mathy offers the first systematic examination of French texts that address the question of America. He shows how prominent French intellectuals have represented America as myth and ...

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Extreme-Occident: French Intellectuals and America 1993, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226510644

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Extreme-Occident: French Intellectuals and America 1993, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226510637

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