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Author : Gary Gutting
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2001-05-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521665590
A clear and comprehensive account of the history of French philosophy in the twentieth century.
Author : Alan D. Schrift
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781405143943
This unique book addresses trends such as vitalism, neo-Kantianism, existentialism, Marxism and feminism, and provides concise biographies of the influential philosophers who shaped these movements, including entries on over ninety thinkers. Offers discussion and cross-referencing of ideas and figures Provides Appendix on the distinctive nature of French academic culture
Author : Sean Bowden,Mark G. E. Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429514104
Read through the lens of a single key concept in twentieth-century French philosophy, that of the "problem", this book relates the concept to specific thinkers and situates it in relation both to the wider history of philosophy and contemporary concerns. How exactly should the notion of problems be understood? What must a problem be in order to play an inaugurating role in thought? Does the word "problem" have a univocal sense? What is at stake – theoretically, ethically, politically, and institutionally – when philosophers use the word? This book addresses these and other questions, and is devoted to making historical and philosophical sense of the various uses and conceptualisations of notions of problems, problematics, and problematisations in twentieth-century French thought. In the process, it augments our understanding of the philosophical programs of a number of recent French thinkers, reconfigures our perception of the history and wider stakes of twentieth-century French philosophy, and reveals the ongoing theoretical richness and critical potential of the notion of the problem and its cognates. Working through the twentieth-century, and focussing on specific thinkers including Foucault and Deleuze, this book will be of interest to all scholars of French philosophy. This book was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki.
Author : Frederick Charles Copleston
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0826469035
Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit and specialist in the history of philosophy, created his history as an introduction for Catholic ecclesiastical seminaries. The 11-volume series gives an accessible account of each philosopher's work, and explains their relationship to the work of other philosophers.
Author : Eric Matthews,Professor of Philosophy and Honorary Research Professor of Medical and Psychiatric Ethics Eric Matthews
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0192892487
This book offers a historical and critical account of the works of some of the major French philosophers of the twentieth century. Avoiding jargon, Eric Matthews shows how the philosophical tradition derived from Descartes has developed in the present century in the writings of key figures such as Bergson, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Derrida, and contemporary French feminists. He relates philosophy to the wider French culture, and draws parallels with English-language philosophers.
Author : Eric Matthews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy, French
ISBN : OCLC:1200618585
Author : Lawrence D. Kritzman,Brian J. Reilly,M. B. DeBevoise
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0231107900
This valuable reference is an authoritative guide to 20th century French thought. It considers the intellectual figures, movements and publications that helped define fields as diverse as history, psychoanalysis, film, philosophy, and economics.
Author : Gary Gutting
Publisher : Oxford University Press (UK)
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199674671
Gary Gutting tells the story of the remarkable flourishing of philosophy in France in the last four decades of the 20th century. He examines what it was to 'do philosophy', what this achieved, and how it differs from the Anglophone tradition. His key theme is that French philosophy in this period was mostly concerned with thinking the impossible.
Author : Caroline Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781847142634
French philosophy and cultural theory continue to hold a prestigious and influential position in European thought. One of the central themes of contemporary French philosophy is its concern with the theoretical and political status of the subject, a question which has been broached by structuralists and poststructuralists through an analysis of the construction of the subject in and by language, discourse, power and ideology.Contemporary French Philosophy outlines the construction of the subject in modern philosophy, focusing in particular on the seminal work of Althusser, Lacan, Derrida and Foucault. The book interrogates some of the most influential perspectives on the question of the subject to contest those postmodern voices which announce its disappearance or death. It argues instead that the question of the subject persists, even in those perspectives which seek to abandon it altogether.Providing a broad introduction to the field and an original analysis of some of the most influential theorists of the 20th Century, the book will be of great interest to political and literary theorists, cultural historians, as well as to philosophers.
Author : Colin Davis
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786948243
Traces of War examines how the trauma of the Second World War influenced the work of the brilliant generation of writers and intellectuals who lived through it.
Author : Henry Somers-Hall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316517901
Develops new readings of key figures in the French tradition that together constitute a new reading of the tradition itself.
Author : Leonard Lawlor
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253223722
Early Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy elaborates the basic project of contemporary continental philosophy, which culminates in a movement toward the outside. Leonard Lawlor interprets key texts by major figures in the continental tradition, including Bergson, Foucault, Freud, Heidegger, Husserl, and Merleau-Ponty, to develop the broad sweep of the aims of continental philosophy. Lawlor discusses major theoretical trends in the work of these philosophers—immanence, difference, multiplicity, and the overcoming of metaphysics. His conception of continental philosophy as a unified project enables Lawlor to think beyond its European origins and envision a global sphere of philosophical inquiry that will revitalize the field.
Author : Alain Badiou
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781788737067
The Adventure of French Philosophy is essential reading for anyone interested in what Badiou calls the “French moment” in contemporary thought. Badiou explores the exceptionally rich and varied world of French philosophy in a number of groundbreaking essays, published here for the first time in English or in a revised translation. Included are the often-quoted review of Louis Althusser’s canonical works For Marx and Reading Capital and the scathing critique of “potato fascism” in Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus. There are also talks on Michel Foucault and Jean-Luc Nancy, and reviews of the work of Jean-François Lyotard and Barbara Cassin, notable points of interest on an expansive tour of modern French thought. Guided by a small set of fundamental questions concerning the nature of being, the event, the subject, and truth, Badiou pushes to an extreme the polemical force of his thinking. Against the formless continuum of life, he posits the need for radical discontinuity; against the false modesty of finitude, he pleads for the mathematical infinity of everyday situations; against the various returns to Kant, he argues for the persistence of the Hegelian dialectic; and against the lure of ultraleftism, his texts from the 1970s vindicate the role of Maoism as a driving force behind the communist Idea.
Author : Judith Butler
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231501422
This classic work by one of the most important philosophers and critics of our time charts the genesis and trajectory of the desiring subject from Hegel's formulation in Phenomenology of Spirit to its appropriation by Kojève, Hyppolite, Sartre, Lacan, Deleuze, and Foucault. Judith Butler plots the French reception of Hegel and the successive challenges waged against his metaphysics and view of the subject, all while revealing ambiguities within his position. The result is a sophisticated reconsideration of the post-Hegelian tradition that has predominated in modern French thought, and her study remains a provocative and timely intervention in contemporary debates over the unconscious, the powers of subjection, and the subject.
Author : Christian Dupont
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400746411
This work investigates the early encounters of French philosophers and religious thinkers with the phenomenological philosophy of Edmund Husserl. Following an introductory chapter addressing context and methodology, Chapter 2 argues that Henri Bergson’s insights into lived duration and intuition and Maurice Blondel’s genetic description of action functioned as essential precursors to the French reception of phenomenology. Chapter 3 details the presentations of Husserl and his followers by three successive pairs of French academic philosophers: Léon Noël and Victor Delbos, Lev Shestov and Jean Hering, and Bernard Groethuysen and Georges Gurvitch. Chapter 4 then explores the appropriation of Bergsonian and Blondelian phenomenological insights by Catholic theologians Édouard Le Roy and Pierre Rousselot. Chapter 5 examines applications and critiques of phenomenology by French religious philosophers, including Jean Hering, Joseph Maréchal, and neo-Thomists like Jacques Maritain. A concluding chapter expounds the principal finding that philosophical and theological receptions of phenomenology in France prior to 1939 proceeded independently due to differences in how Bergson and Blondel were perceived by French philosophers and religious thinkers and their respective orientations to the Cartesian and Aristotelian/Thomist intellectual traditions.
