Reframing twentieth-century French philosophy : the roots of desire /

Reframing Twentieth-Century French Philosophy: The Roots of Desire, edited by Elodie Boublil, investigates the works of French philosophers who have been relegated to the margins of the canon, even if their teachings and writings have been recognized as highly influential. The contributions gather a...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Boublil, Elodie (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2023].
Series:Continental philosophy and the history of thought.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Anthropology or metaphysics? : another history of 20th century French philosophy / Elodie Boublil
  • Part I: Elucidating desire : embodiment and reflexivity. The lived body : from Maine de Biran to French phenomenology / Paula Lorelle
  • Jean Nabert : a hidden source of French phenomenology / Scott Davidson
  • The source of desire : individuation and responsive care in Jean-Louis Chřtien's philosophy / Elodie Boublil
  • Part II: Desire, drives, and imagination. Seize hold of the hunger : Simone Weil's ethical eros / Rebecca Rozelle-Stone
  • Sarah Kofman : irony and self-writingas philosophical practice / Mélissa Thériault
  • Henri Maldiney's philosophy of existence / Till Grohmann
  • Rhythm and subjectivity in Maldiney and Deleuze / Stefan Kristensen
  • Part III: Desire, cosmology, and metaphysics. The reversibility of the flesh : Jacques Garelli and Maurice Merleau-Ponty / Renaud Barbaras (translated by Elodie Boublil)
  • Phenomenological metaphysics in Marc Richir / Alexander Schnell
  • Nature as potentiality of the world / Delia Popa.