Overview

French philosophy is an internationally celebrated national philosophical tradition, and this Oxford Handbook offers a comprehensive approach to its history since 1800. The Handbook features essays written by renowned international specialists, illuminating key movements and positions, themes and thinkers in nineteenth-, twentieth- and even twenty-first-century French philosophy. The volume takes into account developments in recent historical scholarship by broadening the notion of Modern French Philosophy in two ways. Whereas recent approaches in the field have often ignored early nineteenth-century developments, this volume offers comprehensive treatment of French thought of this period in order to grasp better later developments. Moreover, the volume extends the canon at the other end of the period of Modern French Philosophy by including work on philosophers who have come to prominence only in the last ten or twenty years. The volume takes 'French philosophy' in a broad sense to include all philosophy carried out in France over the last 200 years, and it illuminates the institutional and cultural background of this national philosophical tradition in such a way as to provide a fuller and more comprehensive understanding of its unity and of its more famous moments in the twentieth century.

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Author:   Daniel Whistler ,  Mark Sinclair
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.00cm , Height: 4.50cm , Length: 25.00cm
Weight:   1.492kg
ISBN:  

9780198841869

ISBN 10:   0198841868
Pages:   768
Publication Date:   16 July 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Mark Sinclair and Daniel Whistler: Editors' Introduction Part I: Movements and Positions 2: Anne Dévarieux: Maine de Biran and the Legacy of Ideology 3: Delphine Antoine-Mahut: Eclecticism and its Discontents 4: Annie Petit: Positivisms and Spiritualisms: Quarrels and Appropriations 5: Ayse Yuva: Vacherot and his Circle: Philosophy and Religion in the Pantheism Controversy 6: Tullio Viola: Spiritualism as a Philosophy of Culture: Ravaisson and Boutroux 7: Jeremy Dunham: Charles Renouvier on the Necessary Conditions of the Scientific Mind: Passion, Habit, and Will 8: Mark Sinclair: Bergson after Boutroux on Freedom and Contingency 9: Keith Ansell-Pearson and Federico Testa: Jean-Marie Guyau on Morality and Life 10: Pietro Terzi: Léon Brunschwicg and the Development of French Neo-Kantianism 11: Philip Goodchild: Simone Weil's Practical Philosophy 12: Kate Kirkpatrick: Early Existentialisms 13: Cristina Chimisso: Historical Epistemology: A Broader and More Complex View 14: Donald Landes: Merleau-Ponty: A Bergsonian in the Making 15: Lucie K. Mercier: Frantz Fanon, Philosophising (in) the Colonial Situation 16: Michael L. Morgan: Emmanuel Levinas and Vladimir Jankélévitch: Sociality and the Second-Person 17: Johanna Oksala: Foucault and the Task of Philosophy 18: Gaëlle Fiasse: Ethics and Ontology in French Hermeneutics: The Case of Ricoeur 19: Frédéric Fruteau de Laclos: Deleuze or Lyotard? 20: Françoise Dastur: French Phenomenology after 1961 21: Rachel Jones: Irigaray and Feminism in French Philosophy after Beauvoir 22: Leonard Lawlor: Deconstruction and Forgiveness: The Final Phase of Derrida's Thought 23: Sean Bowden and Caitlyn Lesiuk: Badiou's Being and Event Trilogy and the Pas de Deux with Deleuze 24: Rocco Gangle: The Non-Philosophy of François Laruelle Part II: Influences 25: Andrea Gadberry: Descartes in Modern French Philosophy 26: Knox Peden: Spinoza in Modern French Philosophy 27: Andrea Bellantone: Hegel in Modern French Philosophy 28: Frank Fischbach: Marx in Modern French Philosophy 29: François Raffoul: Heidegger in Modern French Philosophy 30: Barry Dainton: French Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition Part III: Themes 31: Carole Talon-Hugon: Aesthetics in Modern French Philosophy 32: Giuseppe Bianco: The Concrete and the Abstract in Modern French Philosophy 33: Mark Sinclair: The Question of Habit in Modern French Philosophy 34: Marie Louise Krogh: Philosophical Historiography in Modern French Philosophy 35: Pascal Engel: Reason and Analysis in Modern French Philosophy 36: Miguel de Beistegui: Desire in Modern French Philosophy 37: Giuseppe Bianco: Life: Modern French Philosophy and the Life Sciences 38: Laurent Bove: Transcendence and Immanence in Modern French Philosophy 39: Patrice Maniglier: Structure in Modern French Philosophy 40: Eleanor Kaufman: Literature and Modern French Philosophy 41: Martha Hanna: French Philosophy during the First World War

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Mark Sinclair is Lecturer in Philosophy at Queen's University Belfast. He is the author of Being Inclined: Félix Ravaisson's Philosophy of Habit (Oxford University Press, 2019) and Bergson (2020), and is the editor of Félix Ravaisson, French Philosophy in the Nineteenth-Century (Oxford University Press, 2023). Daniel Whistler is Professor of Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of a series of works on French, German Dutch philosophies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and is currently preparing a translation of Cousin's shorter publications for OUP.

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