Contemporary French Philosophy (Routledge Revivals)
A Study in Norms and Values
1st Edition
Published on 1. July 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
266 pages
978-0-415-61083-4 (ISBN)
Description
First published in 1964, this is not just a chronicle or encyclopaedia, but deals thoroughly in turn with meaning, view about reason, and views about values, particularly moral values. The author's knowledge of French literature if extensive and thorough, and a feature of the book is his analysis of the philosophical implications of literarry wroks by Sartre, Paul Valery, Camus and others.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
346 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-61083-4 (9780415610834)
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Colin Smith is Dean of Mission Education at the Church Mission Society and teaches on the MA in Mission and Anthropology.
Content
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