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Modern French Philosophy by Vincent Descombes (1981, Trade Paperback)

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Modern French Philosophy, Paperback by Descombes, Vincent, ISBN 0521296722, ISBN-13 9780521296724, Brand New, Free shipping in the US A critical introduction to modern French philosoophy, from one of the liveliest contemporary practitioners.

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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-100521296722

ISBN-139780521296724

eBay Product ID (ePID)1006077

Product Key Features

Number of Pages208 Pages

Publication NameModern French Philosophy

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1981

SubjectGeneral, History & Surveys / Modern

TypeTextbook

AuthorVincent Descombes

Subject AreaPhilosophy

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight8.9 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN80-040768

Dewey Edition19

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal194

Original LanguageFrench

Table Of ContentNote on abbreviations and translation; Introduction; 1. The humanisation of nothingness; 2. The human origin of truth; 3. Semiology; 4. The critique of history; 5. Difference; 6. The end of time; Index.

SynopsisThis is a critical introduction to modern French philosophy, commissioned from one of the liveliest contemporary practitioners and intended for an English-speaking readership. Vincent Descombes offers here a personal guide to the main movements and figures of the last forty-five years., A critical introduction to modern French philosoophy, from one of the liveliest contemporary practitioners., 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. Vincent Descombes offers here a personal guide to the main movements and figures of the last forty-five years. He traces over this period the evolution of thought from a generation preoccupied with the 'three H's' - Hegel, Husserl and Heidegger, to a generation influenced since about 1960 by the 'three masters of suspicion' - Marx, Nietzsche and Freud. In this framework he deals in turn with the thought of Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, the early structuralists, Foucault, Althusser, Serres, Derrida, and finally Deleuze and Lyotard. The 'internal' intellectual history of the period is related to its institutional setting and the wider cultural and political context which has given French philosophy so much of its distinctive character.

LC Classification NumberB2421 .D4413