French Philosophy In The Twentieth Century

Author : Gary Gutting
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521665599
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French Philosophy in the Twentieth Century written by Gary Gutting and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-05-10 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear and comprehensive account of the history of French philosophy in the twentieth century.

Author : Alan D. Schrift
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405143940
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twentieth-Century French Philosophy written by Alan D. Schrift and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429514107
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Problems in Twentieth Century French Philosophy written by Sean Bowden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-05 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Eric Matthews
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780192892485
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twentieth-century French Philosophy written by Eric Matthews and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1996 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Lawrence D. Kritzman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231107914
Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Columbia History of Twentieth-century French Thought written by Lawrence D. Kritzman and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unrivaled in its scope and depth, "The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought" assesses the intellectual figures, movements, and publications that helped shape and define fields as diverse as history and historiography, psychoanalysis, film, literary theory, cognitive and life sciences, literary criticism, philosophy, and economics. More than two hundred entries by leading intellectuals discuss developments in French thought on such subjects as pacifism, fashion, gastronomy, technology, and urbanism. Contributors include prominent French thinkers, many of whom have played an integral role in the development of French thought, and American, British, and Canadian scholars who have been vital in the dissemination of French ideas.

Author : Gary Gutting
Publisher : Oxford University Press (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0199674671
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinking the Impossible written by Gary Gutting and published by Oxford University Press (UK). This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Leonard Lawlor
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253223725
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy written by Leonard Lawlor and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Ian James
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 074568128X
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New French Philosophy written by Ian James and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-02-14 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives a critical assessment of key developments in contemporary French philosophy, highlighting the diverse ways in which recent French thought has moved beyond the philosophical positions and arguments which have been widely associated with the terms 'post-structuralism' and 'postmodernism'. These developments are assessed through a close comparative reading of the work of seven contemporary thinkers: Jean-Luc Marion, Jean-Luc Nancy, Bernard Stiegler, Catherine Malabou, Jacques Rancière, Alain Badiou and François Laruelle. The book situates the writing of each philosopher in relation to earlier traditions of French thought. In differing ways, these philosophers decisively distance themselves from the linguistic paradigm which dominated so much twentieth-century thought in order to rethink philosophical conceptions of materiality, worldliness, shared embodied existence and human agency or subjectivity. They thereby open the way for a radical renewal of the claims, possibilities and transformative power of philosophical thinking itself. This book will be an indispensable text for students of philosophy and for anyone interested in current developments in philosophy and social thought.

Author : Christian Delacampagne
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801868146
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Philosophy in the Twentieth Century written by Christian Delacampagne and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2001-11-05 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A History of Philosophy in the Twentieth Century, Christian Delacampagne reviews the discipline's divergent and dramatic course and shows that its greatest figures, even the most unworldly among them, were deeply affected by events of their time. From Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose famous Tractatus was actually composed in the trenches during World War I, to Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger—one who found himself barred from public life with Hitler's coming to power, the other a member of the Nazi party who later refused to repudiate German war crimes. From Bertrand Russell, whose lifelong pacifism led him to turn from logic and mathematics to social and moral questions, and Jean-Paul Sartre, who made philosophy an occasion for direct and personal political engagement, to Rudolf Carnap, a committed socialist, and Karl Popper, a resolute opponent of Communism. From the Vienna Circle and the Frankfurt School to the contemporary work of philosophers as variously minded as Jacques Derrida, Jürgen Habermas, and Hilary Putnam. The thinking of these philosophers, and scores of others, cannot be understood without being placed in the context of the times in which they lived.

Author : Fernand Vial
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042025778
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unconscious in Philosophy, and French and European Literature written by Fernand Vial and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the idea of the unconscious as it emerges in French and European literature. It discusses the functioning of the normal unconscious mind and provides examples of the abnormal unconscious in poems and literature. Psychiatric cases as they are understood today are illustrated as mirrored in literature describing the functioning of the disturbed mind.