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The Adventure of French Philosophy
Author | : Alain Badiou |
Publsiher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 489 |
Release | : 2022-03-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781788737067 |
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The Adventure of French Philosophy is essential reading for anyone interested in what Badiou calls the “French moment” in contemporary thought. Badiou explores the exceptionally rich and varied world of French philosophy in a number of groundbreaking essays, published here for the first time in English or in a revised translation. Included are the often-quoted review of Louis Althusser’s canonical works For Marx and Reading Capital and the scathing critique of “potato fascism” in Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus. There are also talks on Michel Foucault and Jean-Luc Nancy, and reviews of the work of Jean-François Lyotard and Barbara Cassin, notable points of interest on an expansive tour of modern French thought. Guided by a small set of fundamental questions concerning the nature of being, the event, the subject, and truth, Badiou pushes to an extreme the polemical force of his thinking. Against the formless continuum of life, he posits the need for radical discontinuity; against the false modesty of finitude, he pleads for the mathematical infinity of everyday situations; against the various returns to Kant, he argues for the persistence of the Hegelian dialectic; and against the lure of ultraleftism, his texts from the 1970s vindicate the role of Maoism as a driving force behind the communist Idea.
The Adventure of French Philosophy
Author | : Alain Badiou |
Publsiher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2022-03-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781788736534 |
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The Adventure of French Philosophy is essential reading for anyone interested in what Badiou calls the French Moment in contemporary thought. Badiou explores the exceptionally rich and varied world of French philosophy in a number of groundbreaking essays, published here for the first time in English or in a revised translation. Included are the often-quoted review of Louis Althusser’s canonical works For Marx and Reading Capital and the scathing critique of “potato fascism” in Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus. There are also talks on Michel Foucault and Jean-Luc Nancy, and reviews of the work of Jean-François Lyotard and Barbara Cassin, notable points of interest on an expansive tour of modern French thought. Guided by a small set of fundamental questions concerning the nature of being, the event, the subject, and truth, Badiou pushes to an extreme the polemical force of his thinking. Against the formless continuum of life, he posits the need for radical discontinuity; against the false modesty of finitude, he pleads for the mathematical infinity of everyday situations; against the various returns to Kant, he argues for the persistence of the Hegelian dialectic; and against the lure of ultraleftism, his texts from the 1970s vindicate the role of Maoism as a driving force behind the communist Idea.
French Philosophy
Author | : Stephen Gaukroger,Knox Peden |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780198829171 |
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This book covers French philosophy from its origins in the sixteenth century up to the present, analysing it within its social, political, and cultural context. Throughout, the book explores the dilemma sustained by the markedly national conception of French philosophy, and its history of speaking out on matters of universal concern.
Twentieth Century French Philosophy
Author | : Alan D. Schrift |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2009-02-04 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781405143943 |
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This unique book addresses trends such as vitalism, neo-Kantianism, existentialism, Marxism and feminism, and provides concise biographies of the influential philosophers who shaped these movements, including entries on over ninety thinkers. Offers discussion and cross-referencing of ideas and figures Provides Appendix on the distinctive nature of French academic culture
Adventures with the Theory of the Baroque and French Philosophy
Author | : Nadir Lahiji |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2016-09-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781474228534 |
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Analysing the reception of contemporary French philosophy in architecture over the last four decades, Adventures with the Theory of the Baroque and French Philosophy discusses the problematic nature of importing philosophical categories into architecture. Focusing particularly on the philosophical notion of the Baroque in Gilles Deleuze, this study examines traditional interpretations of the concept in contemporary architecture theory, throwing up specific problems such as the aestheticization of building theory and practice. Identifying these and other issues, Nadir Lahiji constructs a concept of the baroque in contrast to the contemporary understanding in architecture discourse. Challenging the contemporary dominance of the Neo-Baroque as a phenomenon related to postmodernism and late capitalism, he establishes the Baroque as a name for the paradoxical unity of 'kitsch' and 'high' art and argues that the digital turn has enhanced the return of the Baroque in contemporary culture and architectural practice that he brands a pseudo-event in the term 'neobaroque'. Lahiji's original critique expands on the misadventure of architecture with French Philosophy and explains why the category of the Baroque, if it is still useful to keep in architecture criticism, must be tied to the notion of Post-Rationalism. Within this latter notion, he draws on the work of Alain Badiou to theorize a new concept of the Baroque as Event. Alongside close readings of Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno and Michel Foucault related to the criticism of the Baroque and Modernity and discussions of the work of Frank Gehry, in particular, this study draws on Jacque Lacan's concept of the baroque and presents the first comprehensive treatment of the psychoanalytical theory of the Baroque in the work of Lacan.
French Philosophy in the Twentieth Century
Author | : Gary Gutting |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2001-05-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0521665590 |
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A clear and comprehensive account of the history of French philosophy in the twentieth century.
Modern French Philosophy
Author | : Vincent Descombes |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0521296722 |
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A critical introduction to modern French philosoophy, from one of the liveliest contemporary practitioners.
Contemporary French Philosophy
Author | : A. Phillips Griffiths,Pascal Engel |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521357357 |
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A lively and accessible guide to some of the majore issues current in French philosophy today.