French philosophy of the sixties : an essay on antihumanism /
Ferry, Luc
French philosophy of the sixties : an essay on antihumanism / Luc Ferry and Alain Renaut ; translated by Mary H.S. Cattani - Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©1990 - xxix, 233 pages ; 24 cm
Translation of: La pensée 68
Includes bibliographical references and index
Preface to the English translation -- Foreword. The philosophy of the '68 period ; May '68: humanism or individualism? ; Antihumanism in '68 philosophy ; Why antihumanism? Why humanism once again? -- The ideal type for sixties philosophy. The intellectual structure of the sixties ; On the style of the philosophy of the sixties ; The subject on trial ; French philosophy, hyperbolic repetition (of German philosophy?) ; The subject's appeal -- Interpretations of May 1968. The logic of interpretations ; The participants' point of view ; May as pseudorevolution; or, Change within continuity ; May as event ; For interpretative pluralism ; May '68 and the death of the subject -- French Nietzscheanism (Foucault). Defense and illustration of Foucault's Vulgate ; Derrida against Foucault: reason and unreason ; Gauchet and Swain against Foucault: the logic of democracy ; The death of man ; Return of the subject? -- French Heideggerianism (Derrida). From difference to differance ; Writing as the subversion of metaphysics ; Dead ends of differance ; And all the rest is literature -- French Marxism (Bourdieu). Bourdieu against Althusser: Marxism denied ; A Popperian critique of Bourdieu ; Toward a criticist critique of sociologism ; The confrontation with Kant -- French Freudianism (Lacan). The three interpretations of Freud and the question of the subject ; The status of subjectivity: "the true subject" versus "the ego" ; Effects of the splitting of the subject: Lacan's antihumanism ; From the theory of subjectivity to the destruction of the ego -- Return to the subject. The deaths of the subject ; On the metaphysical subject ; From the metaphysical subject to Dasein ; Subjectivity after its deconstruction
Translated from French
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89038173
GB8908328 bnb b8908328
Philosophy, French--20th century
Philosophy, French--History--20th century
France--Politics and government--1958-
B2421 / .F4713 1990
ARCH YNDC 194 F399F
French philosophy of the sixties : an essay on antihumanism / Luc Ferry and Alain Renaut ; translated by Mary H.S. Cattani - Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©1990 - xxix, 233 pages ; 24 cm
Translation of: La pensée 68
Includes bibliographical references and index
Preface to the English translation -- Foreword. The philosophy of the '68 period ; May '68: humanism or individualism? ; Antihumanism in '68 philosophy ; Why antihumanism? Why humanism once again? -- The ideal type for sixties philosophy. The intellectual structure of the sixties ; On the style of the philosophy of the sixties ; The subject on trial ; French philosophy, hyperbolic repetition (of German philosophy?) ; The subject's appeal -- Interpretations of May 1968. The logic of interpretations ; The participants' point of view ; May as pseudorevolution; or, Change within continuity ; May as event ; For interpretative pluralism ; May '68 and the death of the subject -- French Nietzscheanism (Foucault). Defense and illustration of Foucault's Vulgate ; Derrida against Foucault: reason and unreason ; Gauchet and Swain against Foucault: the logic of democracy ; The death of man ; Return of the subject? -- French Heideggerianism (Derrida). From difference to differance ; Writing as the subversion of metaphysics ; Dead ends of differance ; And all the rest is literature -- French Marxism (Bourdieu). Bourdieu against Althusser: Marxism denied ; A Popperian critique of Bourdieu ; Toward a criticist critique of sociologism ; The confrontation with Kant -- French Freudianism (Lacan). The three interpretations of Freud and the question of the subject ; The status of subjectivity: "the true subject" versus "the ego" ; Effects of the splitting of the subject: Lacan's antihumanism ; From the theory of subjectivity to the destruction of the ego -- Return to the subject. The deaths of the subject ; On the metaphysical subject ; From the metaphysical subject to Dasein ; Subjectivity after its deconstruction
Translated from French
0870236946 9780870236945 0870236954 9780870236952
89038173
GB8908328 bnb b8908328
Philosophy, French--20th century
Philosophy, French--History--20th century
France--Politics and government--1958-
B2421 / .F4713 1990
ARCH YNDC 194 F399F