Jean-Paul Sartre is perhaps the best-known of all French writers. This is a biographical study of his life and work.

Sartre: A Biographical Introduction (Leaders of Modern Thought)

Thody, Philip

Charles Scribner`s Sons

This engaging and provocative book seeks to contend the widely held view that 'the conservative imagination' is an oxymoron.Writing fluently and with wit, Philip Thody elucidates the definition of 'conservative thought'. Attitudes towards revolution, liberty and democracy are examined through the work of writers in political and literary genres ranging from Burke and de Tocqueville to Evelyn Waugh and Tom Stoppard. Most controversially, it is contended that within the context of his definition of the term, both Orwell and Camus can be perceived as conservative thinkers.However, whilst professing himself a conservative, the author is not ignorant of the short-comings of conservative thought, as reflected in the wide range of sources he quotes and examines. It is this, coupled with his ability occasionally to ridicule his own position, which prevents an unashamedly personal view from becoming a polemical tract, and which makes the book such illuminating reading for anyone interested in philosophical debate, whether from the right or the left of the spectrum.

The Conservative Imagination

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

From the earliest times to the present day, society has established rules and taboos, written and unwritten, that tell us what we can say, what we can wear and what we can do in public and in the privacy of our homes. The penalty for breaking these rules has ranged from state-sponsored execution to the most subtle social exclusion. From the Bible telling us what to eat to today's paranoia with political correctness, Philip Thody has compiled all these taboos in a witty and irreverent collection. Thody provides an historical account of how taboos and social rules have operated through the ages and in different societies. This book will appeal to anyone interested in knowing why they can't do certain things and must not do others.

Don't Do It!: A Dictionary of the Forbidden

Social Sciences

St.Martin's Press

Albert Camus (Modern Novelists)

Literature & Fiction

Offers a brief profile of the French, Nobel Prize-winning author, and examines his major works

Albert Camus (Macmillan Modern Novelists Series)

History & Criticism

An Historical Introduction to the European Union

An Historical Introduction to the European Union is a chronological political history of European integration from the 1950s to the present. It also includes a contextualising survey of wider European history since the 1600s, and places unification against a background of world politics. This clearly written introduction to the essential history, economics and politics of the European Union assumes no prior knowledge. It offers a detailed account of the Union with sections on: * how the Union works * basic principles of the Union * arguments over contested practices, including agriculture * issues of the cold war, enlargement, and the role of the United States * language * single European currency With an annotated bibliography, chronology and guide to the institutions of the European Union, An Historical Introduction to the European Union incorporates the most recent research and detailed treatment of the policies of the European Union.

History

Americas

Routledge

The Fifth French Republic is a study of modern French politics and history, discussing the five presidents who span from 1959 to the present--Charles de Gaulle, Georges Pompidou, Valry Giscard d'Estang, Fran5~ois Mitterand and Jacques Chirac. Philip Thody examines the importance of the similarities between the five men for an understanding of the general and political culture of France; the similarities and differences in the foreign policies pursued by the five presidents, including anti-Americanism; France's role in the European Union and her attitude to the Cold War; French domestic policies and administrative practices, attempts to decentralize the state, the role of the French civil service, the problem of immigration and the rise of the National Front.

The Fifth French Republic: Presidents, Politics and Personalities: A Study of French Political Culture

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

The Fifth French Republic: Presidents, Politics and Personalities

Europe

Europe Since 1945

Europe Since 1945 is an exciting new survey of the history of Europe since the end of World War Two. In the second half of the twentieth century Europe has known a period of peace and stability unprecedented in its history and virtually unparalleled in the rest of the world. Europe explains the reasons for this state of affairs. Thought- provoking and wide ranging, this book discusses political, economic, social and cultural change in modern Europe. Covering both Western and Eastern Europe comprehensively and featuring extensive analysis of the 1990s, this book includes examination of: * the Cold War * War at the edges - Northern Ireland and Yugoslavia * the European Union * the issues of Nationalism * the end of the dictatorships * economic prosperity, the EEC and the Euro * the break-up of the European Empires and the consequences.

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Sartre: A Biographical Introduction (Leaders of Modern Thought)

The Conservative Imagination

Don't Do It!: A Dictionary of the Forbidden

Albert Camus (Modern Novelists)

Albert Camus (Macmillan Modern Novelists Series)

An Historical Introduction to the European Union

The Fifth French Republic: Presidents, Politics and Personalities: A Study of French Political Culture

The Fifth French Republic: Presidents, Politics and Personalities

Europe Since 1945

Europe Since 1945