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Contemporary French Philosophy

Contemporary French Philosophy

Contemporary French Philosophy

A. Phillips Griffiths
February 1989
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    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.

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    Table of Contents

    • 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.
      Contributors
    • Pascal Engel, J. J. Lecercle, Michèle le Doeuff, Michel Deguy, Vincent Carraud, Bruno Latour, Paul Ricoeur, Richard Kearney, Cyril Barrett, Mary Tiles, Elie Georges Noujain, David Wood, Gregory Elliott, David Farrell Krell

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    • A. Phillips Griffiths