Judgement and Sense in Modern French Philosophy - A New Reading of Six Thinkers

Develops new readings of key figures in the French tradition that together constitute a new reading of the tradition itself.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Judgement and the German Idealists; 2. Bergson and Thinking as Dissociation; 3. Sartre and Thinking as Imaging; 4. Merleau-Ponty and the Indeterminacy of Perception; 5. Derrida and Differance; 6. Foucault, Power, and the Juridico-Discursive; 7. Deleuze and the Question of Determination; Concluding Remarks.

About the author

Henry Somers-Hall is Reader in Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is author of Hegel, Deleuze, and the Critique of Representation (2012) and Deleuze's Difference and Repetition (2013), and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Deleuze (with Daniel W. Smith, Cambridge University Press, 2012) and A Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy (with Jeffrey A. Bell and James Williams, 2018).

Summary

Judgement and Sense in Modern French Philosophy develops a series of new readings of key figures in the French tradition that together constitute a new reading of the tradition itself. Written in an accessible style, it will be of interest to both students and established scholars.

Product details

• Authors: Henry Somers-Hall, Somers-Hall Henry
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2024
• EAN: 9781009048637
• ISBN: 978-1-00-904863-7
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 406 g
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Series: Modern European Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -