Sudhir Hazareesingh

How the French Think

An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People

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Produktbeschreibung

WINNER OF THE GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE D'IDÃ ESThe French: serious and frivolous, charming and infuriating, rational and mystical, pessimistic, pleasure-loving - and perhaps more than any other people, intellectual. This original and entertaining book shows exactly what makes the French so ... French.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 128mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 344g
• ISBN-13: 9780241961063
• ISBN-10: 0241961068
• Artikelnr.: 43612410

Autorenporträt

Sudhir Hazareesingh was born in Mauritius. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and has been a Fellow and Tutor in Politics at Balliol College, Oxford, since 1990. He has written extensively about French intellectual and cultural history; among his books are The Legend of Napoleon, In the Shadow of the General and How the French Think. He won the Prix du Mémorial d'Ajaccio and the Prix de la Fondation Napoléon for the first of these, a Prix d'Histoire du Sénat for the second, and the Grand Prix du Livre d'Idées for the third. In 2020, he became a Grand Commander of the Order of the Star and Key of the Indian Ocean (G.C.S.K.), the highest distinction in the Mauritian honours system.

Rezensionen

There could be no wiser or more witty guide to the problems of France today. Julian Jackson Times Literary Supplement