French Philosophy today : new figures of the human in Badiou, Meillassoux, Malabou, Serres and Latour / Christopher Watkin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watkin, Christopher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, French--21st century--Criticism and interpretation.

Philosophy, French.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xii, 258 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2016.

Summary:

French philosophy today is laying fresh claim to the human. This is not to be mistaken for a return to previous ideas of the human, nor is it, strictly speaking, a posthuman turn. It is a series of independent, simultaneous initiatives, arising in the writing of diverse current French thinkers to transform and rework the figure of the human. Christopher Watkin draws out both the promises and perils inherent in these attempts to rethink humanity's relation to 'nature' and 'culture', to the objects that surround us, to the possibility of social and political change, to ecology and even to our own brains. This comparative assessment makes visible for the first time one of the most important trends in French thought today. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Formalised Inhumanism / Alain Badiou Badiou, Alain 19

2 Supreme Human Value Meets Anti-anthropocentrism / Quentin Meillassoux Meillassoux, Quentin 46

3 The Plastic Human / Catherine Malabou Malabou, Catherine 77

4 The Epigenetic Human / Catherine Malabou Malabou, Catherine 110

5 Universal Humanism / Michel Serres Serres, Michel 141

6 Translating the Human / Bruno Latour Latour, Bruno 171.

ISBN:

9781474414739

1474414737

OCLC:

933722011