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The Frenchmen: Or, My Life in Theory

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“A superbly engrossing adventure of ideas...this will surely be my philosophy book of the year.” —Sarah Bakewell, New York Times bestselling author of Humanly Possible

“Masterful…an engrossing portrait…Eakin makes her obsession with these thinkers contagious.” –Publishers Weekly, starred review

From leading critic and essayist Emily Eakin, a stylish personal history of French theory and its unlikely domination of American culture


When Emily Eakin arrived at Harvard in the late 1980s, she fell...