Judgement and Sense in Modern French Philosophy: A New Reading of Six Thinkers

ISBN-13: 9781316517901 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 270 str.

Henry Somers-Hall

Opis

Develops new readings of key figures in the French tradition that together constitute a new reading of the tradition itself.

Recenzje

'In his excellent book, Judgement and Sense in Modern French Philosophy, Henry Somers-Hall takes up and explores a most basic question. 'At the heart of this enquiry', Somers-Hall begins, 'is the question of what it means to think'(1). As he pursues this question, Somers-Hall offers a groundbreaking reconsideration of the French tradition in philosophy. Among the many important claims that are made is that there is a shared philosophical problem among the six French philosophers he discusses in his book (Bergson, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, Foucault, and Deleuze). In convincingly making his case with respect to this shared problem, Somers-Hall revitalizes the relevance of the work of Bergson, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty to contemporary philosophical concerns and he thus challenges a commonly held assumption, implicit as it may be, that the post-68 generation of philosophers had moved on from the early, phenomenologically inspired tradition.' Jeffrey A. Bell, British Journal for the History of Philosophy

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Judgement and the German Idealists; 2. Bergson and Thinking as Dissociation; 3. Sartre and Thinking as Imaging; 4. Merleau-Ponty and the Indeterminacy of Perception; 5. Derrida and Differance; 6. Foucault, Power, and the Juridico-Discursive; 7. Deleuze and the Question of Determination; Concluding Remarks.