
How French Philosophy Wired Modern Thinking
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Episode: How French Philosophy Wired Modern Thinking
Pub date: 2026-09-03
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How did a group of notoriously difficult French philosophers become intellectual rock stars on American college campuses — and how much do their ideas matter today?
In The Frenchmen, writer and editor Emily Eakin traces the unlikely rise of French theory and the thinkers who transformed how a generation understood language, truth, power, and identity. In this…
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