Philosophy in Turbulent Times: Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, Derrida

Elisabeth Roudinesco

Paper, 208 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14301-1
$19.50 / £13.50

November, 2008
Cloth, 208 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14300-4
$26.50 / £18.50

"Beautifully written and translated." — Choice

"Elisabeth Roudinesco presents a fresh and unique view of some of the fundamental books of twentieth-century philosophy, showing the way in which ideas are indebted to contemporary political and biographical events, but also the way in which ideas contribute to shape those events." — Angelica Nuzzo, professor of philosophy, Brooklyn College

"Indispensable for completing our study of French Freud." — Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities and director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University

Related Subjects

• Continental/Feminist Philosophy

About the Author

Elisabeth Roudinesco is director of research at the University of Paris and director of studies at the École Pratique des Hautes-Etudes, Sorbonne. She is the author of a number of critically acclaimed works, including Columbia University Press's Jacques Lacan and Why Psychoanalysis?

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