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Enemy Within: Culture Wars and Political Identity in Novels of the French Third Republic
The Ohio State University Press, 2008 eISBN: 978-0-8142-8025-6 | Paper: 978-0-8142-5620-6 | Cloth: 978-0-8142-0231-9 Library of Congress Classification PQ653.C43 2009 Dewey Decimal Classification 843.80935844081
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
In The Enemy Within, Gilbert D. Chaitin deepens our understanding of the nature and sources of culture wars during the French Third Republic. The psychological trauma caused by the Ferry educational reform laws of 1880-1882, which strove to create a new national identity based on secular morality rather than God-given commandments, pitted Catholics against proponents of lay education and gave rise to novels by Bourget, Barrès, A. France, and Zola. By deploying Lacanian concepts to understand the “erotics of politics” revealed in these novels, Chaitin examines the formation of national identity, offering a new intellectual history of the period and shedding light on the intimate relations among literature, education, philosophy, morality, and political order. The mechanisms described in The Enemy Within provide fresh insight into the affective structure of culture wars not only in the French Third Republic but elsewhere in the world today. See other books on: Culture Wars | French fiction | Novels | Political Identity | Politics and literature See other titles from The Ohio State University Press |
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Enemy Within: Culture Wars and Political Identity in Novels of the French Third Republic
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
The Ohio State University Press, 2008
eISBN: 978-0-8142-8025-6
Paper: 978-0-8142-5620-6
Cloth: 978-0-8142-0231-9
eISBN: 978-0-8142-8025-6
Paper: 978-0-8142-5620-6
Cloth: 978-0-8142-0231-9
In The Enemy Within, Gilbert D. Chaitin deepens our understanding of the nature and sources of culture wars during the French Third Republic. The psychological trauma caused by the Ferry educational reform laws of 1880-1882, which strove to create a new national identity based on secular morality rather than God-given commandments, pitted Catholics against proponents of lay education and gave rise to novels by Bourget, Barrès, A. France, and Zola.
By deploying Lacanian concepts to understand the “erotics of politics” revealed in these novels, Chaitin examines the formation of national identity, offering a new intellectual history of the period and shedding light on the intimate relations among literature, education, philosophy, morality, and political order. The mechanisms described in The Enemy Within provide fresh insight into the affective structure of culture wars not only in the French Third Republic but elsewhere in the world today.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
