Contemporary French Thought: Fifty Years

Author: Gao Xuanhang
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Publish Date: 2005-11-01
Features: Since the emergence of modern civilization, French thought has held a unique position in the treasure trove of world culture due to its profound philosophical foundations. Looking at the development of contemporary French thought over the past five decades, it can also be found that it continues to construct the important foundation for the development of contemporary world civilization and its theoretical thought. Introducing contemporary French thought to China, as stated by the president of the French Philosophical Society, Jacques Dorn, is "no one else who could better depict it." If it is said that in the history of modern capitalist society and culture, the 18th-century Enlightenment in France was the theoretical source of the entire European intellectual revolution and a "philosophical introduction," then at the critical moment when human history enters the 21st century, contemporary French thought has once again honorably become the main driving force for the thorough reconstruction of Western culture and a "philosophical introduction." The contemporary French thought revolution movement that took place from the second half of the 20th century to the end of the century was not only a simple continuation or copy of the secondary Enlightenment, but its creativity and thoroughness were almost a true "anti-Enlightenment," a "post-Enlightenment" that challenged the direction of the secondary Enlightenment.