| #4796013 in Books | 2011-08-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.69 x6.00l,.82 | File type: PDF | 248 pages||||“Mathy has long been a lucid interpreter of French intellectual history. His new book is particularly timely, as it sheds a historian’s light on the current controversial politics of national identity in France. Mathy shows that it is best underst
The current cultural climate in France is often described as one of “déclinisme” or “sinistrose,” a mixture of pessimism about the national future, nostalgia for the past, and a sinister sense of irreversible decline concerning the present. The notion of “democratic melancholia” has become widely popular, cropping up time and again in academic papers and newspaper articles. In Melancholy Politics, Jean-Philippe Mathy...
You easily download any file type for your device.Melancholy Politics: Loss, Mourning, and Memory in Late Modern France | Jean-Philippe Mathy. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
