FYS 109U THINKING, FRENCH STYLE

An examination of three central preoccupations of French civilization: beauty, intellectual life, and urban space (Paris). Consideration of artists from Delacroix to Rodin to Chanel to Jean Nouvel and thinkers from Descartes to Rousseau to Foucault and Derrida, with emphasis on their impact in contemporary France and on the United States.