Intermittency
The Concept of Historical Reason in Recent French Philosophy
Will be published approx. on 31. August 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
344 pages
978-1-3995-6762-6 (ISBN)
Description
Stoking the embers of French Hegelianism, this book looks at five recent and contemporary French philosophers: Badiou, Jambet, Lardreau, Françoise Proust and Rancière. Each produces a post-Hegelian philosophy of history founded on an assertion of the intermittency of historical value.* a sustained reflection on the character of a contemporary philosophy of history* a new and timely theory of modernity, modern literature and artKey words: Badiou; Rancière; Françoise Proust; Jambet; Lardreau; modern literature; post-Marxism; intermittency; contemporary political thought; French philosophy.
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Andrew Gibson is Research Professor of Modern Literature and Theory at Royal Holloway, University of London, and a member of the Conseil scientifique of the Collège international de philosophie in Paris. He is the author of Beckett and Badious: The Pathos of Intermittenccy (Oxford University Press, 2006), James Joyce: A Critical Life (Reaktion, 2006) and Towards a Postmodern Theory of Narrative (EUP, 1996).