Transformation in Contemporary French Philosophy

This collective contribution to work on French philosophy is both nicely heterogeneous and fully coherent. Its featured subjects are a striking departure from the usual suspects, while building on the state of the art. Its twelve chapters offer a fresh look at existing problematics and distinctive approaches to new material. It will be essential reading for anyone working on recent and contemporary French thought, writ large. -- Patrick ffrench, King's College London
This excellent collection of texts, which exemplarily shows the radicality and vivacity of twentieth-century French philosophy, brings to the forefront how, throughout this tradition, philosophical discourses have always engaged in the task of transforming themselves incessantly by and through active transformations, and thus alterations, of classically inherited and received concepts and notions, meanings and practices, systems and methods. In effect, this collection proposes more than a series of interpretations, it also and more urgently provokes us to question further our history by taking on the responsibility of thinking philosophically a future for philosophy. -- Joseph Cohen, University College Dublin