HISTORY

 

ANCIENT THOUGHT (c.700 BCE-300 CE):

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Classical Literature

 

MEDIEVAL THOUGHT (c.300-c.1400):

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Medieval Literature

 

RENAISSANCE THOUGHT (c.1400-c.1600):

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Renaissance Literature

 

EARLY MODERN THOUGHT (c.1600-c.1785):

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Neoclassical Literature

 

NINETEENTH CENTURY THOUGHT:

bullet Romanticism (c.1785-1830):
bullet Romantic Literature
bullet Mid-Century & Fin de Siècle (1830-1900) Thought:
bullet 'Victorian' Literature

 

TWENTIETH CENTURY THOUGHT:

bullet Analytic Philosophy
bullet Continental Theory:
bullet Idealism
bullet Marxism
bullet Phenomenology, Existentialism, Hermeneutics
bullet Psychoanalysis
bullet (Post-)Structuralisms:
bullet Deconstruction
bullet Deleuzean Theory
bullet Dialogism (Bakhtin Circle)
bullet Foucauldian Discourse Theory
bullet Saussurean Semiology / Structuralism
bullet Structuralist Marxism
bullet Structuralist Psychoanalysis
bullet Feminist Theory
bullet Modernism, Myth & New Criticism
bullet Post-colonial Theory
bullet Pragmatism
 
bullet Twentieth Century Literature

 

REGIONS

 

AFRICAN AND AFRICAN DIASPORIC THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

ASIAN THOUGHT:

bullet Central Asia
bullet East Asian Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet South Asian Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet South-East Asia

 

AUSTRALASIAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

CANADIAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

CARIBBEAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

EUROPEAN THOUGHT:

bullet Central Europe
bullet Eastern Europe:
bullet Russia:
bullet Literature
bullet Northern Europe:
bullet Literature
bullet Southern Europe:
bullet Greece:
bullet Literature
bullet Italy:
bullet Literature
bullet Spain:
bullet Literature
bullet Western Europe:
bullet France:
bullet Literature
bullet Germany:
bullet Literature
bullet UK and Eire:
bullet Literature

 

LATIN AMERICAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

MIDDLE EASTERN THOUGHT:

bullet Arabic/Islamic Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet Israeli/Jewish Thought:
bullet Literature

 

USA: AMERICAN THOUGHT:

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Literature
bullet African American Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet Native American Thought

 

TOPICS

 

ARTS:

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Architecture
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Film
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Literature:

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Author
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Literary Form & Genre:

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Drama
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Poetry
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Prose
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Literary History, Intertextuality, Canonicity
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Metaliterature
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Reader
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Representation
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Music

 

BEING

 

COMMUNICATION:

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Linguistics, Philosophy of Language, & Logic
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Rhetoric, Discourse Theory, & Argumentation Theory
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Semiotics

 

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Language and Literature

 

EDUCATION

 

HISTORY

 

THE HUMAN BEING (BODY, MIND, SELF):

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Philosophy of Mind & Cognitive Science
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Psychology

 

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Gender
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Race
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Sexuality

 

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Literature, the Mind & the Self

 

KNOWLEDGE

 

METAPHILOSOPHY / METATHEORY

 

MORALITY:

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Morality and Literature

 

NATURE (NATURAL SCIENCES):

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Nature and Literature

 

RELIGION:

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Religion and Literature

 

SOCIETY (SOCIAL SCIENCES):

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Anthropology
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Cultural Studies
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Economics
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Human Geography
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Law
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Politics
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Sociology

 

SPORTS
 

GENERAL

ASSOCIATIONS

CAREERS

CONFERENCES

JOURNALS

PHOTOS

PRIMARY SOURCES

SECONDARY SOURCES

TEACHING AND LEARNING

WWW GATEWAYS

 

  

FRENCH THOUGHT

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COURSES

JOURNALS

PHILOSOPHERS / THEORISTS

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

    • Arts:

      • Hollier, Dennis, Jeffrey Mehlman, and Ramona Naddaff, eds.  Literary Debate: Texts and Contexts.  Vol. 2.  Postwar French Thought.  New York: New Press, 2001.

      • Simon, John K., ed.  Modern French Criticism from Proust to Valéry.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1972.  

      • Todorov, Tzvetan, ed.  French Literary Theory Today.  Cambridge: CUP, 1982.

  • Selected Individual Works:

    • Arts:

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SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

    • Bourg, Julian, ed.  After the Deluge: New Perspectives on Postwar French Intellectual and Cultural History.  Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2004.

    • Caws, Peter, ed.  Current French Philosophy. Social Research 49.2 (1980).

    • Critchley, Simon, ed.  Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity: Essays on Derrida, Levinas and Contemporary French Thought.  London: Verso, 1999.

    • Flood, Christopher, and Nick Hewlett, eds.  Currents in Contemporary French Intellectual Life.  London: Macmillan, 2000.

    • Goux, Jean-Joseph, and Philip R. Wood, eds.  Terror and Consensus: Vicissitudes of French Thought.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 1998.

    • Griffiths, A. Phillips, ed.  Contemporary French Philosophy.  Cambridge: CUP, 1987.

    • Hallward, Peter, ed.  "The One and the Other: French Philosophy Today."  Angelaki 8.2 (2003).

    • Kritzman, Lawrence D., ed.  Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought.  New York: Columbia UP, 2006.
    • Lilla, Mark, and Mark Little, eds.  New French Thought: Political Philosophy.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1994.

    • Lotringer, Sylvère, and Sande Cohen , eds.  French Theory in America.  London: Routledge, 2001.

    • Murray, Christopher John, ed.  Encyclopedia of Modern French Thought.  London: Routledge, 2004.

    • Montefiore, Alan, ed.  Philosophy in France Today.  Cambridge: CUP, 1983.

    • Naddaff, Ramona, eds.  A History of French Thought Since 1945.  New Press, 1996-2003.

    • Rotzer, Florian, ed.  Conversations with French Philosophers.  New York: Humanity, 1995.

    • Arts:

  • Selected Individual Works:

    • Appignanesi, Lisa.  Ideas from France: the Legacy of French Theory.  London: Free Association, 1989.

    • Baugh, Bruce.  French Hegel: From Surrealism to Postmodernism.  London: Routledge, 2003.
    • Benrubi, Isaac.  Les Sources et les courants de la philosophie contemporain en France.  Paris: Alcan, 1933.
    • Butler, Judith.  "The Life and Death Struggles of Desire: Hegel and Contemporary French Theory."  Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth Century France.  New York: Columbia UP, 1987.  175-238.
    • Chaplin, Tamara.  Turning on the Mind: French Philosophers on Television.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2007.
    • Charlton, D. G.  "French Thought in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries."  French Thought Since 1600.  London: Methuen, 1972.  41-90.
    • Copleston, Frederic.  Modern Philosophy from the French Revolution to Sartre, Camus, and Levi-Strauss.  Vol. 9 of A History of Philosophy.  New York: Newman, 1974.  Rpt. New York: Doubleday, 1994.

    • Cusset, François.  French Theory: Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze & Cie et les mutations de la vie intellectuelle aux États-Unis.  Paris: La Découverte, 2003.

      • French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2008.

    • Descombes, Vincent.  Le Même et l'autre: Quarante-cinq ans de philosophie française (1933-1978).  Paris: Minuit, 1979.

      • Modern French Philosophy.  Trans. L. Scott-Fox and J. M. Harding.  Cambridge: CUP, 1980.

    • Fabiani, Jean-Louis.  Les Philosophes de la République.  Paris: Minuit, 1988.

    • Ferry, Luc, and Alain Renault.  La Pensée 68: Essai sur l'anti-humanisme contemporain.  Paris: Gallimard, 1985.

      • French Philosophy of the Sixties: an Essay on Antihumanism.  Trans. Mary H. S. Cattani.  Amherst: U of Massachussetts P, 1990.

    • Gane, Mike.  French Social Theory.  London: Sage, 2003.

    • Guitton, Jean.  Regards sur la pensée Française, 1870-1940.  Paris: Beauchesne, 1968.

    • Gunn, J. Alexander.  Modern French Philosophy.  London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1922.

    • Gutting, Gary.  French Philosophy in the Twentieth Century.  Cambridge: CUP, 2001.

    • Janicaud, Dominique.  Heidegger en France.  2 vols.  Paris: Albin Michel, 2001.

    • Janicaud, D.  "France: Rendre à nouveau raison?"  La philosophie en Europe.  Ed. R. Klibansky and D. Pears.  Paris: Gallimard/UNESCO, 1993.

    • Jarczyk, G., and P.-J. Labarrière.  De Kojève à Hegel: 150 ans de pensée Hégélienne en France.  Paris: Albin Michel, 1996.

    • Lawlor, Leonard.  Thinking Through French Philosophy: the Being of the Question.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2003.

    • Lecourt, Dominique.  les Piètres Penseurs.  Paris: Flammarion, 1999.

      • The Mediocracy: French Philosophy Since the Mid-1970s.  Trans. Gregory Elliott.  London: Verso, 2001.

    • Levy-Bruhl, Lucien.  History of Modern Philosophy in France.  Burt Franklin, 1971.

    • Matthews, Eric.  Twentieth Century French Philosophy.  Oxford: OUP, 1996.

    • Mortley, Raoul.  French Philosophers in Conversation: Levinas, Schneider, Serres, Irigaray, Le Doeuff, Derrida.  London: Routledge, 1991.

    • Parodi, Dominique.  la Philosophie contemporain en France.  Paris: Alcan, 1919.

    • Potts, D. C.  "French Thought in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries."  French Thought Since 1600.  London: Methuen, 1972.  1-40.

    • Ravaisson, Félix.  La Philosophie en France au XiXe siècle.  Paris: 1867.

    • Rockmore, Tom.  Heidegger and French Philosophy: Humanism, Antihumanism, and Being.  London: Routledge, 1995.

    • Roth, Michael S.  Knowing and History: Appropriations of Hegel in Twentieth Century France.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1988.
    • Schrift, Alan D.  Twentieth Century French Philosophy: Key Themes and Thinkers.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.

    • Schrift, Alan D.  Nietzsche’s French Legacy: a Genealogy of Poststructuralism.  London: Routledge, 1995.

    • Silverman, Max.  Facing Postmodernity: Contemporary French Thought on Culture and Society.  London: Routledge, 1999.

    • Starr, Peter.  Logics of Failed Revolt: French Theory After May '68.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 1995.

    • Sturrock, John,  The Word from Paris: Essays on Modern French Thinkers and Writers.  London: Verso, 1998.

    • Wahl, J.  Tableau de la philosophie Française.  Paris: Gallimard, 1962.

    • Wicks, Robert.  Modern French Philosophy: from Existentialism to Postmodernism.  Oxford: Oneworld, 2003.

    • Williams, Caroline.  Contemporary French Philosophy: Modernity and the Persistence of the Subject.  London: Athlone, 2001.

    • Wolin, Richard.  "The Grandeur and Twilight of French Philosophical Radicalism."  Currents in Contemporary French Intellectual Life.  Ed. Christopher Flood and Nick Hewlett.  London: Macmillan, 2000.  23-38.

    • Arts:

      • Hand, Sean.  "It's Time for a Change: Mutations of Presence in Contemporary French Critical Theory."  Currents in Contemporary French Intellectual Life.  Ed. Christopher Flood and Nick Hewlett.  London: Macmillan, 2000.  39-55.

      • Wellek, Rene.  French, Italian, and Spanish Criticism, 1900-1950.  Vol. 8 of A History of Modern Criticism, 1750-1950.  8 Vols.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1993.

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