Contemporary French Philosophy: Modernity and the Persistence of the Subject 9781472546197, 9780485004328, 9780485006322

French philosophy and cultural theory continue to hold a prestigious and influential position in European thought. One o

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Contemporary French Philosophy: Modernity and the Persistence of the Subject
9781472546197, 9780485004328, 9780485006322

A case for sex education that puts it in historical and philosophical context. In the United States, sex education is mo

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This original and ambitious book aims to change how we think about good lives. The perennial debates about good lives—th

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From the mid to the late 20th century various French thinkers have at times toyed with the label of â˜the saint’, apply

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Essays on Adorno's aesthetics, the nature of a postmodern ethics, and the persistence of modernity in the so-called

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Why do certain places and not others symbolically capture the past and freeze time? Likewise, why does the process of me

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This book examines Bakhtin as a Modernist, "exilic" thinker, engaged with the question of ethical subjectivity

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Adrian Johnston’s Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, planned for three volumes, will lay the foundations for a new m

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A compelling critique of contemporary continental theory Through a series of incisive readings of leading theoretical f

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This book explores the importance of Jacques Derrida in French philosophy and France's idea of what studying '

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