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

By Christopher Watkin

Book information

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9781474414746
DOI
10.1515/9781474414746
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1963009 bytes)
Pages
272\270
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 03:00:29

Description

A comparative critique of the human in Alain Badiou, Quentin Meillassoux, Catherine Malabou, Michel Serres and Bruno LatourContemporary French philosophy is laying fresh claim to the human. Through a series of independent, simultaneous initiatives, arising in the writing of diverse current French thinkers, the figure of the human is being transformed and reworked. Christopher Watkin draws out both the promises and perils inherent in these attempts to rethink humanity’s relation 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. This comparative assessment makes visible for the first time one of the most important trends in French thought today.

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