Contemporary French Philosophy: 21 (Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements, Series Number 21)
Cambridge University Press, 1/26/1989
EAN 9780521357357, ISBN10: 0521357357
Paperback, 240 pages, 23.4 x 15.6 x 1.5 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
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.