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French Philosophy of the Sixties: An Essay on Antihumanism

by Luc Ferry, Alain Renaut, Mary H. S. Cattani. 236 pgs.

Contributors:

   Luc Ferry, Alain Renaut, Mary H. S. Cattani

Publisher:

   University of Massachusetts Press

Place of Publication:

  Amherst, MA  

Publication Year:

  1990

Subjects:

Philosophy, French--20th Century, France--Politics And Government--1958-

	Contents
	Preface to the English Translation	xi
	Foreword	xvii
	The Philosophy of the '68 Period	xvii
	May '68: Humanism or Individualism?	xxi
	Antihumanism in '68 Philosophy	xxiii
	Why Antihumanism? Why Humanism Once Again?	xxiv
1	The Ideal Type for Sixties Philosophy	3
	The Intellectual Structure of the Sixties	4
	On the Style of the Philosophy of the Sixties	12
	The Subject on Trial	15
	French Philosophy, Hyperbolic Repetition (of German Philosophy?)	19
	The Subject's Appeal	26
2	Interpretations of May 1968	33
	The Logic of Interpretations	33
	The Participants' Point of View	39
	May as Pseudorevolution; or, Change within Continuity	42
	May as Event	55
	For Interpretative Pluralism	59
	May '68 and the Death of the Subject	64
3	French Nietzscheanism (Foucault)	68
	Defense and Illustration of Foucault's Vulgate	71
	Derrida against Foucault: Reason and Unreason	81
	Gauchet and Swain against Foucault: The Logic of Democracy	90
	The Death of Man	97
	Return of the Subject?	107
4	French Heideggerianism (Derrida)	122
	From Difference to Différance	125
	Writing as the Subversion of Metaphysics	134
	Dead Ends of Différance	140
	And All the Rest Is Literature	146
5	French Marxism (Bourdieu)	153
	Bourdieu against Althusser: Marxism Denied	155
	A Popperian Critique of Bourdieu 169
	Toward a Criticist Critique of Sociologism	175
	The Confrontation with Kant	180
6	French Freudianism (Lacan)	185
	The Three Interpretations of Freud and the Question of the Subject	186
	The Status of Subjectivity: "The True Subject" versus "the Ego"	190
	Effects of the Splitting of the Subject: Lacan's Antihumanism	198
	From the Theory of Subjectivity to the Destruction of the Ego	204
7	Return to the Subject	208
	The Deaths of the Subject	208
	On the Metaphysical Subject	212
	From the Metaphysical Subject to Dasein	214
	Subjectivity after Its Deconstruction	220
	Conclusion	228
	Name Index	231
	Preface to the English Translation

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