Contemporary French Philosophy

A lively and accessible guide to some of the majore issues current in French philosophy today.

A. Phillips Griffiths (Author)

9780521357357, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 26 January 1989

240 pages
23.3 x 15.9 x 1.5 cm, 0.405 kg

This volume offers a lively and accessible guide to some of the major issues current in French philosophy today and to some of the figures who are or have been influential in shaping its development. The collection is unusual and interesting in bringing together a range of contributors from both Britain and France, and is intended not only for professional philosophers but also for those with a more general interest in the French intellectual scene.

Preface
1. Continental insularity: contemporary French analytical philosophy Pascal Engel
2. The misprision of pragmatics: conceptions of language in contemporary French philosophy J. J. Lecercle
3. Ants and women, or philosophy without borders Michèle le Doeuff
4. Motifs towards a poetics Michel Deguy
5. The relevance of Cartesianism Vincent Carraud
6. The Enlightenment without the critique: a word on Michel Serres' philosophy Bruno Latour
7. The teleological and deontological structures of action: Aristotle and/or Kant? Paul Ricoeur
8. The crisis of the post-modern image Richard Kearney
9. Merleau-Ponty and the phenomenology of perception Cyril Barrett
10. Epistemological history: the legacy of Bachelard and Canguilhem Mary Tiles
11. History as genealogy: an exploration of Foucault's approach to history Elie Georges Noujain
12. Beyond deconstruction? David Wood
13. Further adventures of the dialectic: Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Althusser Gregory Elliott
14. Paradoxes of the pineal: from Descartes to Georges Bataille David Farrell Krell
Index.

Subject Areas: Western philosophy, from c 1900 - [HPCF]