Heidegger in France (Studies in Continental Thought) - Hardcover

Janicaud, Dominique

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0253017734 ISBN 13: 9780253017734

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Dominique Janicaud claimed that every French intellectual movement from existentialism to psychoanalysis was influenced by Martin Heidegger. This translation of Janicaud s landmark work, Heidegger en France, details Heidegger s reception in philosophy and other humanistic and social science disciplines. Interviews with key French thinkers such as Francoise Dastur, Jacques Derrida, Elaine Escoubas, Jean Greisch, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Jean-Luc Marion, and Jean-Luc Nancy are included and provide further reflection on Heidegger s relationship to French philosophy. An intellectual undertaking of authoritative scope, this work furnishes a thorough history of the French reception of Heidegger s thought."

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Review:

Every student of contemporary European philosophy and literature needs to read this extraordinary book. Author: David Farrell Krell Source: author of The Tragic Absolute: German Idealism and the Languishing of God

From the Author:

Dominique Janicaud (1937–2002) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nice-Sophia-Antipolis and the author of many books including Powers of the Rational (IUP, 1994), Phenomenology and the Theological Turn, and Phenomenology Wide Open. Heidegger en France, the crowning achievement of his philosophical work, was published in French in 2001.

François Raffoul is Professor of Philosophy at Louisiana State University. He is author of The Origins of Responsibility (IUP, 2010).

David Pettigrew is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University. He is editor (with François Raffoul) of French Interpretations of Heidegger.

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0253017734
• ISBN 13: 9780253017734
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 558