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Modern French philosophy / Vincent Descombes ; translated by L. Scott-Fox and J. M. Harding.
LIBRA B2421 .D4413
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Descombes, Vincent.
- Standardized Title:
- Même et l'autre. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy, French--20th century.
- Philosophy, French.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 192 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [1980]
- Summary:
- This is a critical introduction to modern French philosophy, commissioned from one of the liveliest contemporary practitioners and intended for an English-speaking readership. The dominant 'Anglo-Saxon' reaction to philosophical development in France has for some decades been one of suspicion, occasionally tempered by curiosity but more often hardening into dismissive rejection. But there are signs now of a more sympathetic interest and an increasing readiness to admit and explore shared concerns, even if these are still expressed in a very different idiom and intellectual context.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Philosophy in France 1
- 1 The humanisation of nothingness / Kojeve 9
- The interpretation of Hegel 9
- The search for a concrete philosophy 16
- The objection of solipsism 20
- The origin of negation 23
- The end of history 27
- Negativity 32
- Identity and difference 36
- The question of enunciation 39
- Appendix Nothingness in Being and Nothingness / Jean-Paul Sartre 48
- 2 The human origin of truth / Merleau-Ponty 55
- The soul and the body 57
- The earth does not revolve 59
- Does the dark side of the moon exist? 62
- The phenomenon 65
- The phenomenology of history 69
- 3 Semiology 75
- The intellectual scene in 1960 75
- Structuralism 77
- What is a structural analysis? / Serres 82
- Communication 92
- Structures 100
- The humanist controversy 103
- 4 The critique of history / Foucault, Althusser 110
- Nihilism 110
- Marxism in peril 117
- Superstructures 126
- Introduction to the problem of power 131
- 5 Difference / Derrida, Deleuze 136
- The radicalisation of phenomenology 136
- La differance 142
- Originary delay 145
- The search for a transcendental empiricism 152
- Critique of the dialectic 156
- 6 The end of time / Deleuze, Klossowski, Lyotard 168
- Authority 168
- The fin-de-siecle disorder 173
- The tale (of the end of the tale) of the end of history 180.
- Notes:
- Translation of Le Même et l'autre.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages [xi]-xii.
- ISBN:
- 0521228379
- OCLC:
- 6709154
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