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

Elisabeth Roudinesco

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Paper, 208 pages,
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November, 2008
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Introduction: In Defense of Critical Thought

Note on the Text

1. Georges Canguilhem: A Philosophy of Heroism

2. Jean-Paul Sartre: Psychoanalysis on the Shadowy Banks of the Danube

3. Michel Foucault: Readings of History of Madness

4. Louis Althusser: The Murder Scene

5. Gilles Deleuze: Anti-Oedipal Variations

6. Jacques Derrida: The Moment of Death

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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?William McCuaig is most recently the translator of Gianni Vattimo's The Vocation and Responsibility of the Philosopher.

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