France/USA : the cultural wars

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A selection of a half-dozen of articles compares the current intellectual climates of the United States and France regarding contemporary dissonances, lamenting with piqued compunction their "stran...

A selection of a half-dozen of articles compares the current intellectual climates of the United States and France regarding contemporary dissonances, lamenting with piqued compunction their "strange impermeability" (13). These two pioneering democracies, founded two hundred years ago, are hurling at each other the language of their creation, the Americans immensely proud of a dozen years seniority and the French ... of their Frenchness. Or at least, that is what the arti-cles claim. Close reading of the most significant pieces may make the disaccord more substantive ... -- From JSTOR (Dec. 12, 2011).

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