Reframing Twentieth-Century French Philosophy - The Roots of Desire

This collection renews contemporary debates in phenomenology, ethics, social ontology, aesthetics, and metaphysics and broadens the scope of twentieth-century French philosophy by analyzing the works and key concepts of authors who left their marks on its genesis.

List of contents

Introduction: Anthropology or Metaphysics? Another History of 20th Century French Philosophy, by Elodie Boublil
Part I: Elucidating Desire: Embodiment and Reflexivity
Chapter 1: The Lived Body: From Maine de Biran to French Phenomenology, by Paula Lorelle
Chapter 2: Jean Nabert: A Hidden Source of French Phenomenology? by Scott Davidson
Chapter 3: The Source of Desire: Individuation and Responsive Care in Jean-Louis Chrétien's Philosophy, by Elodie Boublil
Part II: Desire, Drives, and Imagination
Chapter 4: Seize Hold of the Hunger: Simone Weil's Ethical Eros, by A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone
Chapter 5: Sarah Kofman: Irony and Self-Writing as Philosophical Practice, by Melissa Theriault
Chapter 6: Henri Maldiney's Philosophy of Existence, by Till Grohmann
Chapter 7: Rhythm and Subjectivity in Maldiney and Deleuze, by Stefan Kristensen
Part III: Desire, Cosmology, and Metaphysics
Chapter 8: The Reversibility of the Flesh: Jacques Garelli and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, by Renaud Barbaras (Translated by Elodie Boublil)
Chapter 9: Phenomenological Metaphysics in Marc Richir, by Alexander Schnell.
Chapter 10: Nature as Potentiality of the World, by Delia Popa.

About the author

Elodie Boublil is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Paris XII (UPEC).

Product details

• Authors: Elodie Boublil
• Assisted by: Elodie Boublil (Editor), Boublil Elodie (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2023
• EAN: 9781793639523
• ISBN: 978-1-79363-952-3
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Continental Philosophy and the History of Thought
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; France, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Literature: history & criticism, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Literature: history and criticism, Phenomenology and Existentialism