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45. Modernities:Paul Virilio (1932-),Gianni Vattimo (1936-), Giorgio Agamben (1942-)

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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Preface ix
  4. 1. René Descartes (1596±1650) and Baruch Spinoza (1632±1677): Beginnings 1
  5. 2. Immanuel Kant (1724±1804) and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770±1831) 7
  6. 3. Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (1770±1843) 27
  7. 4. Karl Marx (1818±1883) 34
  8. 5. Charles Baudelaire (1821±1867) and Steéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898) 41
  9. 6. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) 50
  10. 7. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) Through his invention of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud deeply 57
  11. 8. Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) and Structural Linguistics 68
  12. 9. Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) 71
  13. 10. Phenomenology 80
  14. 11. Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962) and Georges Canguilhem (1904-1995): Epistemology in France 90
  15. 12. Jean Paulhan (1884-1969) and/versus Francis Ponge (1899-1988) 98
  16. 13. György Lukács (1885-1971) 104
  17. 14. Russian Formalism, the Moscow Linguistics Circle, and Prague Structuralism: Boris Eichenbaum (1886- 1959), Jan Mukarovsky (1891-1975), Victor Shklovsky (1893-1984), Yuri Tynyanov (1894-1943), Roman Jakobson (1896-1982) 112
  18. 15. Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) 118
  19. 16. Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) 125
  20. 17. Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) 135
  21. 18. Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) 141
  22. 19. Reception Theory: Roman Ingarden (1893-1970), Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900- 2002) and the Geneva School 149
  23. 20. The Frankfurt School, the Marxist Tradition, Culture and Critical Thinking: Max Horkheimer (1895-1973), Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979), Theodor Adorno (1903-1969), Jürgen Habermas (1929-) 156
  24. 21. Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) 166
  25. 22. Georges Bataille (1897-1962) and Maurice Blanchot (1907-) 172
  26. 23. Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) 186
  27. 24. Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) 194
  28. 25. The Reception of Hegel and Heidegger in France: Alexandre Kojève (1902-1968), Jean Hyppolite (1907-1968), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) 204
  29. 26. Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), Albert Camus (1913-1960) and Existentialism 211
  30. 27. Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) 216
  31. 28. Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) and French Feminism 224
  32. 29. Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-) 233
  33. 30. Jean Genet (1910-1986) 239
  34. 31. Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) 246
  35. 32. Roland Barthes (1915-1980) 255
  36. 33. French Structuralism: A. J. Greimas (1917-1992), Tzvetan Todorov (1939-) and Gérard Genette (1930-) 263
  37. 34. Louis Althusser (1918-1990) and his Circle 271
  38. 35. Reception Theory and Reader-Response: Hans-Robert Jauss (1922-1997), Wolfgang Iser (1926-) and the School of Konstanz 278
  39. 36. Jean-François Lyotard (1925-1998) and Jean Baudrillard (1929-): The Suspicion of Metanarratives 285
  40. 37. The Social and the Cultural: Michel de Certeau (1925-1986), Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) and Louis Marin (1931-1992) 292
  41. 38. Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) and Félix Guattari (1930-1992) 301
  42. 39. Michel Foucault (1926-1984) 310
  43. 40. Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) 315
  44. 41. Luce Irigaray (1930-) 324
  45. 42. Christian Metz (1931-1993) 333
  46. 43. Guy Debord (1931-1994) and the Situationist International 339
  47. 44. Umberto Eco (1932-) 347
  48. 45. Modernities:Paul Virilio (1932-),Gianni Vattimo (1936-), Giorgio Agamben (1942-) 354
  49. 46. Hélène Cixous (1938-) 363
  50. 47. Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940-) and Jean-Luc Nancy (1940-) 369
  51. 48. Julia Kristeva (1941-) 380
  52. 49. Slavoj Žižek (1949-) 388
  53. 50. Cahiers du Cinéma(1951-) 396
  54. 51. Critical Fictions:Experiments in Writing from Le Nouveau Roman to the Oulipo 402
  55. 52. Tel Quel(1960-1982) 409
  56. 53. Other French Feminisms: Sarah Kofman (1934-1994), Monique Wittig (1935-), Michèle Le Doeuff (1948-) 417
  57. 54. Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism in France 424
  58. Contributors 429
  59. Index 431
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748626793-046

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Preface ix
  4. 1. René Descartes (1596±1650) and Baruch Spinoza (1632±1677): Beginnings 1
  5. 2. Immanuel Kant (1724±1804) and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770±1831) 7
  6. 3. Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (1770±1843) 27
  7. 4. Karl Marx (1818±1883) 34
  8. 5. Charles Baudelaire (1821±1867) and Steéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898) 41
  9. 6. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) 50
  10. 7. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) Through his invention of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud deeply 57
  11. 8. Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) and Structural Linguistics 68
  12. 9. Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) 71
  13. 10. Phenomenology 80
  14. 11. Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962) and Georges Canguilhem (1904-1995): Epistemology in France 90
  15. 12. Jean Paulhan (1884-1969) and/versus Francis Ponge (1899-1988) 98
  16. 13. György Lukács (1885-1971) 104
  17. 14. Russian Formalism, the Moscow Linguistics Circle, and Prague Structuralism: Boris Eichenbaum (1886- 1959), Jan Mukarovsky (1891-1975), Victor Shklovsky (1893-1984), Yuri Tynyanov (1894-1943), Roman Jakobson (1896-1982) 112
  18. 15. Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) 118
  19. 16. Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) 125
  20. 17. Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) 135
  21. 18. Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) 141
  22. 19. Reception Theory: Roman Ingarden (1893-1970), Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900- 2002) and the Geneva School 149
  23. 20. The Frankfurt School, the Marxist Tradition, Culture and Critical Thinking: Max Horkheimer (1895-1973), Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979), Theodor Adorno (1903-1969), Jürgen Habermas (1929-) 156
  24. 21. Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) 166
  25. 22. Georges Bataille (1897-1962) and Maurice Blanchot (1907-) 172
  26. 23. Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) 186
  27. 24. Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) 194
  28. 25. The Reception of Hegel and Heidegger in France: Alexandre Kojève (1902-1968), Jean Hyppolite (1907-1968), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) 204
  29. 26. Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), Albert Camus (1913-1960) and Existentialism 211
  30. 27. Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) 216
  31. 28. Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) and French Feminism 224
  32. 29. Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-) 233
  33. 30. Jean Genet (1910-1986) 239
  34. 31. Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) 246
  35. 32. Roland Barthes (1915-1980) 255
  36. 33. French Structuralism: A. J. Greimas (1917-1992), Tzvetan Todorov (1939-) and Gérard Genette (1930-) 263
  37. 34. Louis Althusser (1918-1990) and his Circle 271
  38. 35. Reception Theory and Reader-Response: Hans-Robert Jauss (1922-1997), Wolfgang Iser (1926-) and the School of Konstanz 278
  39. 36. Jean-François Lyotard (1925-1998) and Jean Baudrillard (1929-): The Suspicion of Metanarratives 285
  40. 37. The Social and the Cultural: Michel de Certeau (1925-1986), Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) and Louis Marin (1931-1992) 292
  41. 38. Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) and Félix Guattari (1930-1992) 301
  42. 39. Michel Foucault (1926-1984) 310
  43. 40. Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) 315
  44. 41. Luce Irigaray (1930-) 324
  45. 42. Christian Metz (1931-1993) 333
  46. 43. Guy Debord (1931-1994) and the Situationist International 339
  47. 44. Umberto Eco (1932-) 347
  48. 45. Modernities:Paul Virilio (1932-),Gianni Vattimo (1936-), Giorgio Agamben (1942-) 354
  49. 46. Hélène Cixous (1938-) 363
  50. 47. Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940-) and Jean-Luc Nancy (1940-) 369
  51. 48. Julia Kristeva (1941-) 380
  52. 49. Slavoj Žižek (1949-) 388
  53. 50. Cahiers du Cinéma(1951-) 396
  54. 51. Critical Fictions:Experiments in Writing from Le Nouveau Roman to the Oulipo 402
  55. 52. Tel Quel(1960-1982) 409
  56. 53. Other French Feminisms: Sarah Kofman (1934-1994), Monique Wittig (1935-), Michèle Le Doeuff (1948-) 417
  57. 54. Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism in France 424
  58. Contributors 429
  59. Index 431
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