Contemporary French Philosophy (Routledge Revivals) : a Study in Norms and Values.

Contemporary French Philosophy (Routledge Revivals) : a Study in Norms and Values.

First published in 1964, this is not just a chronicle or encyclopaedia, but deals thoroughly in turn with meaning, view about reason, and views about values, particularly moral values. The author's knowledge of French literature is extensive and thorough, and a feature of the book is his analys...

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Main Author: Smith, Colin
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2010.
Series:Routledge revivals.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Philosophy, French > 20th century.
Philosophy, French
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part one: The search for significance; 1 Absurdity. The gulf between man and his world. Camus; 2 Transcendence. The pursuit of meaning as a necessary but 'useless passion'. Sartre; 3 Participation. A vindication of being-in-itself as meaningful. Louis Lavelle; Part two: The role of reason and the concept; 4 As mediation between subject and object. Alquié; 5 As an assimilating force within the world. André Lalande; 6 As a dissimilating force. Gaston Bachelard and E. Morot-Sir.
  • 7 The concept as expression. The extraction of provisional meanings from the permanently indeterminate. Merleau-Ponty8 The rejection of 'expressionism'. The 'logos' as the 'rule' of thought. Brice Parain; Part three: Norms and values; 9 Closed and open evolutionary morality. Bergson's Les Deux Sources de la morale et de la religion; 10 Involutionary mortality. André Lalande; 11 The creation of values. Raymond Polin; 12 The contingency of value. Vladimir Jankélévitch; 13 Detail and atmosphere. René Le Senne; Part four: Towards a definition of authenticity; 14 The instant; 15 Choice.
  • 16 The authentic and the everyday. Camus17 Universality and particularity; 18 Saint-Exupéry; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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