Twentieth-Century French Philosophy: Key Themes and Thinkers

Alan D. Schrift

lut 2009 · Sprzedawca: John Wiley & Sons

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This unique book addresses trends such as vitalism, neo-Kantianism, existentialism, Marxism and feminism, and provides concise biographies of the influential philosophers who shaped these movements, including entries on over ninety thinkers.

• Offers discussion and cross-referencing of ideas and figures
• Provides Appendix on the distinctive nature of French academic culture

O autorze

Alan D. Schrift is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Grinnell College Center for the Humanities. He is the author of Nietzsche and the Question of Interpretation: Between Hermeneutics and Deconstruction (1990), Nietzsche's French Legacy: A Genealogy of Poststructuralism (1995), Modernity and the Problem of Evil (2005), and the editor of six collections of essays, including The Logic of Gift: Toward an Ethic of Generosity (1997).