Thinking through French philosophy : the being of the question / Leonard Lawlor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lawlor, Leonard, 1954-

Series:

Studies in Continental thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961.

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice.

Poststructuralism.

Philosophy, French--20th century.

Philosophy, French.

Physical Description:

xvi, 212 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2003]

Summary:

..". no other book undertakes to relate all these Frenchphilosophers to each other the way that [Lawlor] does, brilliantly." --Fran ois Raffoul -- For many, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, andGilles Deleuze represent one of the greatest movements in French philosophy. Butthese philosophers and their works did not materialize without a philosophicalheritage. In Thinking through French Philosophy, Leonard Lawlor shows how the workof Maurice Merleau-Ponty formed an important current in sustaining the developmentof structuralism and post-structuralism. Seeking the "point ofdiffraction," or the specific ideas and concepts that link Derrida, Foucault, and Deleuze, Lawlor discovers differences and convergences in these thinkers whoworked the same terrain. Major themes include metaphysics, archaeology, language anddocumentation, expression and interrogation, and the very experience of thinking.Lawlor's focus on the experience of the question brings out critical differences inimmanence and transcendence. This illuminating and provocative book brings newvitality to debates on contemporary French philosophy.

Contents:

If theory is gray, green is the golden tree of life : philosophy and non-philosophy since Hyppolite

The chiasm and the fold : an introduction to the philosophical concept of archeology

Eliminating some confusion : Merleau-Ponty and Derrida on being and writing

The legacy of Husserl's "The origin of geometry" : the limits of phenomenology in Merleau-Ponty and Derrida

The end of phenomenology : expressionism in Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze

The end of ontology : interrogation in Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze

The beginnings of post-modernism : phenomenology and Bergsonism, Derrida and Deleuze.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [179]-207) and index.

ISBN:

0253342252

0253215919

OCLC:

50562086