Intermittency
Subtitle: the concept of historical reason in recent French philosophy
By: Andrew Gibson
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780748637577; 9780748637584; 9780748650743; 9780748650750
Subjects: French Philosophy
Description: "Andrew Gibson engages with five recent and contemporary French philosophers, Badiou, Jambet, Lardreau, Franc̜oise Proust and Rancière, who each produce a post-Hegelian philosophy of history founded on an assertion of the intermittency of historical value. Gibson explores this 'anti-schematics of historical reason' and its implication for politics, ethics and aesthetics in a wide range of modern intellectual contexts, finding its necessary complement and most powerful expression in a wealth of modern art, chiefly modern literature. The result is a sustained reflection on the possible character of a contemporary philosophy of history and an important contribution to our knowledge of contemporary French philosophy."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-316) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Jean-Jacques Lecercle; title: Introduction; title: The logic of intermittency: Alain Badiou; title: Sporadic modernity: Franc̜oise Proust; title: A counter-phenomenology of Spirit: Christian Jambet; title: Alternates Indépassables: Guy Lardeau; title: Intermittency and melancholy: Jacques Rancière; title: Conclusion: Prolegmena to a critical synthesis.