1. Within this new body of literature one work in particular stands out for its importance in providing much new material for studying the case of France: Serge Audier, Néo-libéralisme(s). Une archéologie intellectuelle (Paris: Grasset, 2012). From a different perspective inspired by the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu, see François Denord, Néo-libéralisme version française. Histoire d’une idéologie politique (Paris: Demopolis, 2007).
2. The marginality of intellectual history in France is explored in Marc Angenot, L’histoire des idées. Problématiques, objets, concepts, méthodes, enjeux, débats (Liège: Presses Universitaires de Liège, 2014).
3. Quentin Skinner, “Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas,” [1969] in Meaning and Context: Quentin Skinner and his Critics, ed. James Tully (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1988), 65.
4. Michael Scott Christofferson, French Intellectuals Against the Left: The Antitotalitarian Moment of the 1970s (New York: Berghahn, 2004), 19.
5. Ibid., 368–369.