Intermittency
The Concept of Historical Reason in Recent French Philosophy
Published on 15. December 2011
344 pages
978-0-7486-3758-4 (ISBN)
Description
Explores the concept of historical intermittency in 5 recent French philosophers
Andrew Gibson engages with five recent and contemporary French philosophers, Badiou, Jambet, Lardreau, Françoise Proust and Rancière, who each produce a post-Hegelian philosophy of history founded on an assertion of the intermittency of historical value. Gibson explores this `anti-schematics of historical reason'' and its implication for politics, ethics and aesthetics in a wide range of modern intellectual contexts, finding its necessary complement and most powerful expression in a wealth of modern art, chiefly modern literature. The result is a sustained reflection on the possible character of a contemporary philosophy of history and an important contribution to our knowledge of contemporary French philosophy.
Key Features
- Reflects on the character of contemporary philosophy of history
- Looks at the writings of authors from Wordsworth and Kleist through Flaubert, Rimbaud and Orwell to Lampedusa, Carlo Levi and Sebald
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Content
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
