Philosophy in Turbulent Times

Informationen zum Autor Elisabeth Roudinesco is director of research at the University of Paris and director of studies at the École Pratique des Hautes-Etudes! Sorbonne. She is the author of a number of critically acclaimed works! including Columbia University Press's Jacques Lacan and Why Psychoanalysis? Klappentext For Elisabeth Roudinesco! a historian of psychoanalysis and one of France's leading intellectuals! Canguilhem! Sartre! Foucault! Althusser! Deleuze! and Derrida belong to a "great generation" of French philosophers. Innovative and troubled! these thinkers accomplished remarkable work and lived incredible lives! and though their cultural horizon was dominated by Marxism and psychoanalysis! they were by no means strict adherents to Marxist and Freudian doctrines. Having known many of these intellectuals personally! Roudinesco merges an account of their thought and experiences with her own reminiscences! launching a passionate defense of their work against late-twentieth-century detractors. Intense! clever! and persuasive! Philosophy in Turbulent Times captures the dynamism of French thought while also reclaiming the value of Freudian theory and the philosophy of radical commitment. Zusammenfassung For Elisabeth Roudinesco! a historian of psychoanalysis and one of France's leading intellectuals! Canguilhem! Sartre! Foucault! Althusser! Deleuze! and Derrida belong to a "great generation" of French philosophers. Innovative and troubled! these thinkers accomplished remarkable work and lived incredible lives! and though their cultural horizon was dominated by Marxism and psychoanalysis! they were by no means strict adherents to Marxist and Freudian doctrines. Having known many of these intellectuals personally! Roudinesco merges an account of their thought and experiences with her own reminiscences! launching a passionate defense of their work against late-twentieth-century detractors. Intense! clever! and persuasive! Philosophy in Turbulent Times captures the dynamism of French thought while also reclaiming the value of Freudian theory and the philosophy of radical commitment. ...

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For Elisabeth Roudinesco, a historian of psychoanalysis and one of France's leading intellectuals, Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, and Derrida belong to a "great generation" of French philosophers. Innovative and troubled, these thinkers accomplished remarkable work and lived incredible lives, and though their cultural horizon was dominated by Marxism and psychoanalysis, they were by no means strict adherents to Marxist and Freudian doctrines. Having known many of these intellectuals personally, Roudinesco merges an account of their thought and experiences with her own reminiscences, launching a passionate defense of their work against late-twentieth-century detractors. Intense, clever, and persuasive, Philosophy in Turbulent Times captures the dynamism of French thought while also reclaiming the value of Freudian theory and the philosophy of radical commitment.

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Introduction: In Defense of Critical Thought Note on the Text 1. Georges Canguilhem: A Philosophy of Heroism 2. Jean-Paul Sartre: Psychoanalysis on the Shadowy Banks of the Danube 3. Michel Foucault: Readings of History of Madness 4. Louis Althusser: The Murder Scene 5. Gilles Deleuze: Anti-Oedipal Variations 6. Jacques Derrida: The Moment of Death Select Bibliography