Philosophy in Turbulent Times: Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, Derrida by Elisabeth Roudinesco ISBN 13: 9780231143011

Columbia University Press, 2010-05-31. Paperback. Used: Good.

Columbia University Press, 2010-06-07. Paperback. Very Good. 0.6000 in x 8.2000 in x 5.4000 in. Light shelf wear. Else clean and tight.

Paperback / softback. New. For Elisabeth Roudinesco, a historian of psychoanalysis and one of France's leading intellectuals, Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, and Derrida represent a "great generation" of French philosophers who accomplished remarkable work and lived incredible lives. These troubled and innovative thinkers endured World War II and the cultural and political revolution of the 1960s, and their cultural horizon was dominated by Marxism and psychoanalysis, though they were by no means strict adherents to the doctrines of Marx and Freud. Roudinesco knew many of these intellectuals personally, and she weaves an account of their thought through lived experience and reminiscences. Canguilhem, for example, was a distinguished philosopher of science who had a great influence on Foucault's exploration of sanity and madness-themes Althusser lived in a notorious personal drama. And in dramatizing the life of Freud for the screen, Sartre fundamentally… Read More

Columbia University Press, 2010-06-07. Paperback. Used:Good.

Columbia University Press, 2010. Paperback. New. 208 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.50 inches.

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Columbia University Press, 2010-06-07. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!