Currents In Contemporary French Intellectual Life

CHRISTOPHER FLOOD is Head of European Studies at the University of Surrey. He is author of Pensée politique et imagination historique dans l'oevre de Paul Claudel (1991) and of Political Myth: Theoretical Introduction (1996). He has co-edited Political Ideologies in Contemporary France (1997) and two collections of essays on the politics of French intellectuals. He is co-editor of the European Horizons series for University of Nebraska Press.

NICK HEWLETT is Reader in the School of Languages and Chair of the Centre for European Research at Oxford Brookes University, where he has been since 1990. He is author of Modern French Politics: Analysing Conflict and Consensus since 1945 (1998), Democracy in Modern France (2000), co-author of Contemporary (with Jill Forbes and François Nectoux, 1994 and 2000) and co-editor of Unity and Diversity in the New Europe (1999). He has a number of articles and chapters in journals such as Contemporary French Civilization , Modern and Contemporary France and Politics , and in edited collections.