Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Continental Insularity: Contemporary French Analytical Philosophy
- The Misprision of Pragmatics: Conceptions of Language in Contemporary French Philosophy
- Ants and Women, or Philosophy without Borders
- Motifs towards a Poetics
- The Relevance of Cartesianism
- The Enlightenment without the Critique: A Word on Michel Serres' Philosophy
- The Teleological and Deontological Structures of Action: Aristotle and/or Kant?
- The Crisis of the Post-modern Image
- Merleau-Ponty and the Phenomenology of Perception
- Epistemological History: The Legacy of Bachelard and Canguilhem
- History as Genealogy: An Exploration of Foucault's Approach to History
- Beyond Deconstruction?
- Further Adventures of the Dialectic: Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Althusser
- Paradoxes of the Pineal: From Descartes to Georges Bataille
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Continental Insularity: Contemporary French Analytical Philosophy
- The Misprision of Pragmatics: Conceptions of Language in Contemporary French Philosophy
- Ants and Women, or Philosophy without Borders
- Motifs towards a Poetics
- The Relevance of Cartesianism
- The Enlightenment without the Critique: A Word on Michel Serres' Philosophy
- The Teleological and Deontological Structures of Action: Aristotle and/or Kant?
- The Crisis of the Post-modern Image
- Merleau-Ponty and the Phenomenology of Perception
- Epistemological History: The Legacy of Bachelard and Canguilhem
- History as Genealogy: An Exploration of Foucault's Approach to History
- Beyond Deconstruction?
- Further Adventures of the Dialectic: Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Althusser
- Paradoxes of the Pineal: From Descartes to Georges Bataille
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
Summary
These lectures delivered at the Royal Institute of Philosophy cannot, even in the case of the first seven by French philosophers, be regarded as representative of French philosophy. That is however necessarily so, since nothing can be representative of contemporary French philosophy except contemporary French philosophy itself. They do, however, reflect one of the characteristics of French philosophy which underlies this: its great diversity. The essays by Pascal Engel, Michèle Le Doeuff, and Bruno Latour suggest explanations.
We are very deeply indebted to philosophers on both sides of the Channel for advice on possible contributors to this volume. Above all, from the beginning we were immensely helped and guided by Rev. Professor Marcel Regnier, SJ, editor of Archives de Philosophic. He was to have opened the series, but to our great regret this was prevented by his failing health. We are also deeply grateful to Mr Alan Montefiore, of Balliol College, for his advice and for his chairing many of the lectures.
These philosophers are not, however, responsible for the final composition of the volume. Many were chosen, but few would be called; and of these, a few had to cancel their acceptance at short notice. This was not an unallayed misfortune. Dr Kearney, Dr Elliott, and Dr Krell gave us their splendid papers in their stead, and we are most grateful to them.
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- Contemporary French Philosophy , pp. v - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1989