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Thinking the Impossible
Gary Gutting tells the story of the remarkable flourishing of philosophy in France in the last four decades of the 20th century. He examines what it was to 'do philosophy', what this achieved, and how it differs from the Anglophone tradition. His key theme is that French philosophy in this period was mostly concerned with thinking the impossible^.
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The years of theory : postwar French thought to the present
\"Fredric Jameson introduces the major themes of French theory: existentialism, structuralism, poststructuralism, semiotics, feminism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism. In a series of accessible lectures, he places this effervescent period of thought in the context of its most significant political conjunctures, including the Liberation of Paris, the Algerian War, the uprisings of May '68, and the creation of the EU\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Radical Indecision
In his newest book, Radical Indecision , esteemed
scholar Leslie Hill poses the following question: If the task of a
literary critic is to make decisions about the value of a literary
work or the values embodied in it, decisions in turn based on some
inherited or established values, what happens when that piece of
literature fails to subscribe to the established values? Put
another way, how should literary criticism respond to the paradox
that in order to make critical judgments of literary works, it is
first necessary to suspend judgment and to consider the
impossibility of making a final decision? Hill pursues these ideas
in the works of leading French critics Roland Barthes, Maurice
Blanchot, and Jacques Derrida, discussing writers such as Sade,
Mallarmé, Proust, Artaud, Genet, Celan, and Duras.
Hill concludes that, despite their differences, Barthes,
Blanchot, and Derrida share a conviction that criticism cannot take
place without exposure to that resistance to decision that is
inseparable from reading and that they address diversely as the
\"neuter\" or the \"undecidable.\" Radical Indecision offers
the first sustained exploration of the \"undecidable.\" This
comprehensive book breathes new life into the discipline of
literary theory and will be essential reading for students and
scholars alike.
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Intermittency
Ths book explores the concept of historical intermittency in the work of five French philosophers. By critiquing the work of Alain Badiou, Françoise Proust, Christian Jambet, Guy Lardreau and Jacques Rancière - and drawing on a wealth of philosophy, literature, history and art - Andrew Gibson develops a new theory of historical time. In different ways, these philosophers all work with a concept of the historical \"event\" as an extraordinary occurrence which shatters established historical formations and promises new historical beginnings.
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Gilles Deleuze
This book offers a readable and compelling introduction to the work of one of the twentieth century's most important and elusive thinkers. Other books have tried to explain Deleuze in general terms. Todd May organizes his book around a central question at the heart of Deleuze's philosophy: how might we live? The author then goes on to explain how Deleuze offers a view of the cosmos as a living thing that provides ways of conducting our lives that we may not have dreamed of. Through this approach the full range of Deleuze's philosophy is covered. Offering a lucid account of a highly technical philosophy, Todd May's introduction will be widely read amongst those in philosophy, political science, cultural studies and French studies.
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The Young Derrida and French Philosophy, 1945–1968
In this powerful study Edward Baring sheds fresh light on Jacques Derrida, one of the most influential yet controversial intellectuals of the twentieth century. Reading Derrida from a historical perspective and drawing on new archival sources, The Young Derrida and French Philosophy shows how Derrida's thought arose in the closely contested space of post-war French intellectual life, developing in response to Sartrian existentialism, religious philosophy and the structuralism that found its base at the École Normale Supérieure. In a history of the philosophical movements and academic institutions of post-war France, Baring paints a portrait of a community caught between humanism and anti-humanism, providing a radically new interpretation of the genesis of deconstruction and of one of the most vibrant intellectual moments of modern times.
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