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French Philosophy Today : New Figures of the Human in Badiou, Meillassoux, Malabou, Serres and Latour / Christopher Watkin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781474414739
  • 9781474414746
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 194 23
LOC classification:
  • B2431 .W38 2016
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Alain Badiou: Formalised Inhumanism -- 2 Quentin Meillassoux: Supreme Human Value Meets Antianthropocentrism -- 3 Catherine Malabou: The Plastic Human -- 4 Catherine Malabou: The Epigenetic Human -- 5 Michel Serres: Universal Humanism -- 6 Bruno Latour: Translating the Human -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index
Summary: A comparative critique of the human in Alain Badiou, Quentin Meillassoux, Catherine Malabou, Michel Serres and Bruno LatourContemporary French philosophy is laying fresh claim to the human. Through a series of independent, simultaneous initiatives, arising in the writing of diverse current French thinkers, the figure of the human is being transformed and reworked. Christopher Watkin draws out both the promises and perils inherent in these attempts to rethink humanity's relation to 'nature' and 'culture', to the objects that surround us, to the possibility of social and political change, to ecology and even to our own brains. This comparative assessment makes visible for the first time one of the most important trends in French thought today.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Alain Badiou: Formalised Inhumanism -- 2 Quentin Meillassoux: Supreme Human Value Meets Antianthropocentrism -- 3 Catherine Malabou: The Plastic Human -- 4 Catherine Malabou: The Epigenetic Human -- 5 Michel Serres: Universal Humanism -- 6 Bruno Latour: Translating the Human -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index

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A comparative critique of the human in Alain Badiou, Quentin Meillassoux, Catherine Malabou, Michel Serres and Bruno LatourContemporary French philosophy is laying fresh claim to the human. Through a series of independent, simultaneous initiatives, arising in the writing of diverse current French thinkers, the figure of the human is being transformed and reworked. Christopher Watkin draws out both the promises and perils inherent in these attempts to rethink humanity's relation to 'nature' and 'culture', to the objects that surround us, to the possibility of social and political change, to ecology and even to our own brains. This comparative assessment makes visible for the first time one of the most important trends in French thought today.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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