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The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought by Lawrence D. Kritzman; Brian J. Reilly; Malcolm DeBevoise (Translator)
Call Number: q DC33.7 .C575 2006

Table of Contents / List of Articles

In-depth articles on:
* intellectual figures - Barthes, Bourdieu, Foucault, Lévi-Strauss, Saussure, etc.
* movements and philosophies - Les Situationnistes, structuralisme, L'histoire selon les Marxistes
* fields of study - sociology, history

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