Descombes, Vincent
Modern French Philosophy
- ISBN 13:
- 9780521296724
- author:
- Descombes, Vincent
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 1981
- Pages:
- 208
- Dimensions:
- 21.5 x 14 x 1.4 centimetres (0.2
- Genre:
- Nonfiction, Philosophy, General,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 5 working days
Description
This critical introduction to modern French philosophy offers a personal guide to the main movements and figures of the last forty-five years. Tracing the evolution of thought from a preoccupation with key thinkers such as Hegel, Husserl, and Heidegger, Vincent Descombes explores how this gave way to an influence since about 1960 by Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud.
The book delves into the thought of influential philosophers including Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Althusser, Serres, Derrida, and Deleuze and Lyotard. Descombes examines how these thinkers shaped French philosophy within its institutional setting and broader cultural and political context.
This book provides a nuanced understanding of the internal intellectual history of modern French philosophy, shedding light on its distinctive character and relevance to contemporary thought.
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