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Thinking the Impossible - French Philosophy Since 1960 (Paperback)
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Thinking the Impossible - French Philosophy Since 1960 (Paperback)
Series: The Oxford History of Philosophy
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The late 20th century saw a remarkable flourishing of philosophy in
France. The work of French philosophers is wide ranging,
historically informed, often reaching out beyond the boundaries of
philosophy; they are public intellectuals, taken seriously as
contributors to debates outside the academy. Gary Gutting tells the
story of the development of a distinctively French philosophy in
the last four decades of the 20th century. His aim is to arrive at
an account of what it was to 'do philosophy' in France, what this
sort of philosophizing was able to achieve, and how it differs from
the analytic philosophy dominant in Anglophone countries. His
initial focus is on the three most important philosophers who came
to prominence in the 1960s: Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and
Jacques Derrida. He sets out the educational and cultural context
of their work, as a basis for a detailed treatment of how they
formulated and began to carry out their philosophical projects in
the 1960s and 1970s. He gives a fresh assessment of their responses
to the key influences of Hegel and Heidegger, and the fraught
relationship of the new generation to their father-figure Sartre.
He concludes that Foucault, Derrida, and Deleuze can all be seen as
developing their fundamental philosophical stances out of
distinctive readings of Nietzsche. The second part of the book
considers topics and philosophers that became prominent in the
1980s and 1990s, such as the revival of ethics in Levinas, Derrida,
and Foucault, the return to phenomenology and its use to revive
religious experience as a philosophical topic, and Alain Badiou's
new ontology of the event. Finally Gutting brings to the fore the
meta-philosophical theme of the book, that French philosophy since
the 1960s has been primarily concerned with thinking the
impossible.
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