French Philosophy Today New Figures of Human in Badiou, Meillassoux, Malabou, Serres Latour

Alain Badiou, Quentin Meillassoux, Catherine Malabou, Michel Serres and Bruno Latour: this new generation of French philosophers is laying fresh claim to the human. Across a number of new strains of philosophy, they are rethinking humanity's relationships: to 'nature' and 'culture', to the objects that surround us, to the possibility of social and political change, to ecology and even to our own brains.

Christopher Watkin draws out both the promises and perils of these new philosophies. And he shows just how high the stakes are for our technologically advanced but socially atomised and ecologically vulnerable society.

About the author

Christopher Watkin is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at Monash University. His previous publications include Phenomenology or Deconstruction?, Difficult Atheism, and French Philosophy Today.

Summary

Alain Badiou, Quentin Meillassoux, Catherine Malabou, Michel Serres and Bruno Latour: this comparative, critical analysis shows the promises and perils of new French philosophy's reformulation of the idea of the human.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Watkin, Christopher (Monash University) Watkin, Christopher Green Watkin, Christopher (Senior Lecturer in French Studies Watkin, Christopher (Senior Lecturer in French Stu Watkin
• Assisted by: Christopher Watkin (Editor), Barbara Green (Editor), Fiona Hackney (Editor)
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 31.08.2017
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9781474425834
• ISBN: 978-1-4744-2583-4
• Pages: 272
• Series: The Edinburgh History of Women's Periodical Culture in Britain; The Edinburgh History of Women's Periodical Culture in Britain
• Subjects: Soziale und politische Philosophie; Philosophie: Metaphysik und Ontologie