History
HIS196L French Intellectuals and Politics from Voltaire and Rousseau to Sartre and Foucault
Studies the emergence of the secular intellectual as a force in French political and cultural life. Topics considered include Voltaire and the Republic of Letters, Robespierre and the self-fashioning of the revolutionary intellectual, the Dreyfus Affair, the enigma of French fascism, the meaning of May '68, and decolonization and the Algerian War.
Instructor
Jonathan Beecher