Facing the Other

Facing the Other
Author: Seán Hand
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1996
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780700704156

Study of one of the key philosophers in the post-Heideggerian field and an increasingly central presence in contemporary debates about identity and responsibility.

Daniel Halévy, Henri Petit et les Cahiers verts

Daniel Halévy, Henri Petit et les Cahiers verts
Author: Toby Garfitt
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9783039101559

Cet ouvrage collectif, qui rassemble les travaux d'un colloque tenu à la Maison Française d'Oxford en 2002 sous le titre 'Henri Petit et son cercle', a deux buts: mieux comprendre la contribution apportée par Daniel Halévy et sa collection Les Cahiers verts à la vie littéraire des années 20 et étudier les débuts littéraires d'Henri Petit et de son cercle en rapport avec le volume collectif Écrits (Grasset, Les Cahiers verts, 1927), à l'occasion des soixante-quinze ans de celui-ci. L'année 1927 est une année charnière. C'est celle du centenaire de la publication de la Préface de Cromwell, et le Romantisme est de nouveau à la mode. Le dernier numéro des Cahiers verts avant Écrits est consacré à Anna de Noailles, peut-être la dernière des Romantiques. Mais en même temps un renouveau du classicisme semble se dessiner. Quelle est la place de cette collection dans l'histoire de l'édition et de la littérature? Et non seulement des Cahiers verts, mais de Daniel Halévy lui-même, dont le salon accueillait tant de personnalités de l'époque? De quel bord les jeunes écrivains d'Écrits pencheront-ils? Ils sont pratiquement inconnus à l'époque: Chamson, Malraux, Grenier, Petit. Parmi eux, ce dernier passe pour être le plus doué. Comment le situer par rapport à ses contemporains? Une équipe franco-britannique des meilleurs spécialistes répond à ces questions.

Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Duras
Author: Leslie Hill
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2002-09-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1134942729

Marguerite Duras is France's best-known and most controversial contemporary woman writer. Duras' influence extends from her early novels of the 1950's to her radically innovative experimental autobiographical text of the 1980's The Lover Leslie Hill's book throws new light on Duras' relationship to feminism, psychoanalysis, sexuality, literature, film, politics, and the media. Feted by Kristeva, and Laca who claimed her as almost his other self, Duras is revealed to be a profoundly transgressive thinker and artist. It will be a must for all concerned with contemporary writing, writing by women, recent European cinema, film and literature.

Resistance, Flight, Creation

Resistance, Flight, Creation
Author: Dorothea Olkowski
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801486456

Thirteen women at the forefront of philosophy locate new feminist points of view within the discipline by rigorously engaging works of contemporary French philosophy. In so doing, they both transform the standard practices of the field and carve out new territory. These writers amplify the work of feminist philosophers such as Simone de Beauvoir, Luce Irigaray, and Sarah Kofman in ways that are both stylistically and substantively creative. They also appropriate for radical feminist use the works of male philosophers such as Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Jean-Paul Sartre.The essays illustrate the manner in which feminist philosophers bypass traditional methodology in favor of a disciplinary freedom characterized by fluid methodologies--best exemplified in Beauvoir's work--and by the employment of imaginative forms, including the autobiographical and the poetic. The modes of inquiry used here range variously from psychoanalysis and existentialism to deconstruction, post-structuralism, and newly resurgent phenomenology. This volume also contains a comprehensive bibliography of feminist thinkers who are enacting French philosophy in English, German, and French.

The Subject of Rosi Braidotti

The Subject of Rosi Braidotti
Author: Bolette Blaagaard
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2014-09-25
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1472573374

The Subject of Rosi Braidotti: Politics and Concepts brings into focus the diverse influence of the work of Rosi Braidotti on academic fields in the humanities and the social sciences such as the study and scholarship in - among others - feminist theory, political theory, continental philosophy, philosophy of science and technology, cultural studies, ethnicity and race studies. Inspired by Braidotti's philosophy of nomadic relations of embodied thought, the volume is a mapping exercise of productive engagements and instructive interactions by a variety of international, outstanding and world-renowned scholars with texts and concepts developed by Braidotti throughout her immense body of work. In Braidotti's work, traversing themes of engagements emerge of politics and philosophy across generations and continents. Therefore, the edited volume invites prominent scholars at different stages of their careers and from around the world to engage with Braidotti's work in terms of concepts and/or political practice.