The Oxford Handbook of Modern French Philosophy
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Modern French Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Whistler |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2024-09-06 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780198841869 |
France is famous for philosophy: this Handbook explores the riches and interest of this great intellectual tradition since 1800. Specially written essays by leading experts illuminate key movements and positions, themes and thinkers in French philosophy, exploring the ideas in their historical context.
The Oxford Handbook of Modern French Philosophy
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Modern French Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 769 |
Release | 2024-07-16 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0192579002 |
French philosophy is an internationally celebrated national philosophical tradition, and this Oxford Handbook offers a comprehensive approach to its history since 1800. The Handbook features essays written by renowned international specialists, illuminating key movements and positions, themes and thinkers in nineteenth-, twentieth- and even twenty-first-century French philosophy. The volume takes into account developments in recent historical scholarship by broadening the notion of Modern French Philosophy in two ways. Whereas recent approaches in the field have often ignored early nineteenth-century developments, this volume offers comprehensive treatment of French thought of this period in order to grasp better later developments. Moreover, the volume extends the canon at the other end of the period of Modern French Philosophy by including work on philosophers who have come to prominence only in the last ten or twenty years. The volume takes 'French philosophy' in a broad sense to include all philosophy carried out in France over the last 200 years, and it illuminates the institutional and cultural background of this national philosophical tradition in such a way as to provide a fuller and more comprehensive understanding of its unity and of its more famous moments in the twentieth century.
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Early Modern Europe
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Early Modern Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Desmond M. Clarke |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 610 |
Release | 2011-01-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 019955613X |
A team of leading scholars survey the development of philosophy in the period of extraordinary intellectual change from the mid-16th century to the early 18th century. They cover metaphysics and natural philosophy; the mind, the passions, and aesthetics; epistemology, logic, mathematics, and language; ethics and political philosophy; and religion.
The Oxford Handbook of Montaigne
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Montaigne PDF eBook |
Author | Philippe Desan |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 841 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 019021533X |
"The creator of the 'essay,' Michel de Montaigne serves as a bridge between what we call the early modern and modernity. The Essays resemble a patchwork of personal reflections that tend toward a single goal: to live better in the present and to prepare for death. Montaigne constantly redefines the nature of his task in order to fashion himself anew and, in the end, offers an impressionistic model of descriptions based on momentary experiences. Over the centuries, the reception of Montaigne has been anything but simple. The institutionalization of an author depends on what one might call his or her 'ideological and historical trajectory.' An effect of 'globalization' has even reached Montaigne in recent years, bringing him sudden, worldwide visibility. His thought has become internationalized, and he is read, studied, and commented in most European countries as well as in North America, Latin America, and Asia"
Thinking the Impossible
Title | Thinking the Impossible PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Gutting |
Publisher | Oxford University Press (UK) |
Total Pages | 226 |
Release | 2013-03-07 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0199674671 |
Gary Gutting tells the story of the remarkable flourishing of philosophy in France in the last four decades of the 20th century. He examines what it was to 'do philosophy', what this achieved, and how it differs from the Anglophone tradition. His key theme is that French philosophy in this period was mostly concerned with thinking the impossible.
French Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
Title | French Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Gaukroger |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 152 |
Release | 2020-07-23 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0192564501 |
French culture is unique in that philosophy has played a significant role from the early-modern period onwards, intimately associated with political, religious, and literary debates, as well as with epistemological and scientific ones. While Latin was the language of learning there was a universal philosophical literature, but with the rise of vernacular literatures things changed and a distinctive national form of philosophy arose in France. This Very Short Introduction covers French philosophy from its origins in the sixteenth century up to the present, analysing it within its social, political, and cultural context. Beginning with psychology and epistemology, Stephen Gaukroger and Knox Peden then move onto the emergence of radical philosophy in the eighteenth century, before considering post-revolutionary philosophy in the nineteenth century, philosophy in the world wars, the radical thought of the 1960s, and finally French philosophy today. Throughout, they explore the dilemma sustained by the markedly national conception of French philosophy, and its history of speaking out on matters of universal concern. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century
Title | The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Peter R. Anstey |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 666 |
Release | 2013-06-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199549990 |
Twenty-six new essays by experts on seventeenth-century thought provide a critical survey of this key period in British intellectual history. These far-reaching essays discuss not only central debates and canonical authors from Francis Bacon to Isaac Newton, but also explore less well-known figures and topics from the period.