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- Title
Can French Studies Exist Today?
- Authors
Ross, George
- Abstract
'French studies' were much easier to do thirty years ago when French Politics, Culture & Society was founded. France then seemed, and largely was, synonymous with Paris, which appeared knowable. It also seemed possible to scan French intellectual and cultural life across disciplines, in part because the Parisian French media loudly announced where the action was. French politics also looked distinctive internationally and French leaders projected themselves around the planet. It was understandable that FPC&S would have holistic goals and attempt to cover as much of what was happening as possible while eagerly embracing inter-disciplinarity. Since then there have been massive changes, however. France's intellectual, cultural, social, and political biographies have been decentralized, Europeanized, globalized, and internationalized. French academic disciplines, like those in other countries, have been subdivided, often in difficult-to-follow ways. France itself, in the 1980s a formerly colonial great power that still spoke stridently in world affairs, is now a medium-sized member of the EU under very great economic and social strains. It is vastly harder to do holistic 'French studies' now. All the more reason to try!
- Subjects
FRENCH Fifth Republic; FRENCH politics &; government, 1958-; FRENCH studies; HISTORIOGRAPHY; INTERDISCIPLINARY approach to knowledge; HOFFMANN, Stanley, 1928-2015; WAHL, Nicholas
- Publication
French Politics, Culture & Society, 2014, Vol 32, Issue 2, p9
- ISSN
1537-6370
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/fpcs.2014.320202