Contemporary French Philosophy (Routledge Revivals)

Preface, Introduction, ONE: THE SEARCH FOR SIGNIFICANCE, 1. Absurdity. The gulf between man and his world. Camus, 2. Transcendence. The pursuit of meaning as a necessary but 'useless passion'. Sartre, 3. Participation. A vindication of being-in-itself as meaningful. Louis Lavelle, TWO: THE ROLE OF REASON AND THE CONCEPT, 4. As mediation between subject and object. Alquie, 5. As an assimilating force within the world. Andre Lalande, 6. As a dissimilating force for the production of new meanings. Gaston Bachelard and E.Morot-Sir, 7. The concept as expression. The extraction of provisional meanings from the permanently indeterminate. Merleau-Ponty, 8. The rejection of 'expressionism'. The 'logos' as the 'rule' of thought. Brice Parain, THREE: NORMS AND VALUES, 9. Closed and open evolutionary morality. Bergson's The Two Sources, 10. Involutionary morality. Andre Lalande, 11. The creation of values. Raymond Polin, 12. The contingency of value. Vladimir Jankelevitch, 13. Detail and atmosphere. Rene Le Senne, FOUR: NORMS AND VALUES, 14. The instant, 15. Choice, 16. The authentic and the everyday. Camus, 17. Universality and particularity, 18. Saint-Exupery, Conclusion, Bibliography, Index