Introduction to Contemporary French Philosophy, Volumes 1 and 2

Author: Gao Xuanhang
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Publish Date: 2004-12-01
Features: Contemporary French philosophy is a brilliant and vibrant model in the history of Western philosophy and culture since the Enlightenment, providing a crucial theoretical foundation for the entire cultural life of contemporary Western society. In the past half-century, the French intellectual world has seen nearly 100 prominent thinkers such as Jacques Maritain, Jean-Paul Sartre, Georges Bataille, Roland Barthes, Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvoir, Emmanuel Levinas, Paul Ricoeur, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Fran?ois Lyotard, Pierre Bourdieu, and Jean Baudrillard, giving rise to a continuous stream of sociocultural trends like existentialism, structuralism, post-Freudianism, deconstruction, post-structuralism, new semiotics, reflective symbolic sociological theory, reflective hermeneutics, and postmodern feminism, with theoretical schools renewing frequently.
Based on extensive research into primary sources in French, and drawing on over two decades of personal observation, visits, and direct dialogues with numerous renowned French philosophers, the author attempts to scientifically summarize the entire developmental trajectory of contemporary French philosophy from an interdisciplinary and multifaceted perspective. This is the first academic work in China to comprehensively discuss contemporary French philosophy. It is written in fluent and accessible language, rich in content, and holds significant theoretical value. It serves as a comprehensive research reference for college and university students, graduate students, teachers, and researchers seeking further in-depth study of contemporary French and Western thought and culture; at the same time, it also provides an effective guide for general readers to gain a full understanding of contemporary French thought and Western modern culture.