Colin Smith

Contemporary French Philosophy (Routledge Revivals)

A Study in Norms and Values

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1964, this is not just a chronicle or encyclopaedia, but deals thoroughly in turn with meaning, view about reason, and views about values, particularly moral values. The author's knowledge of French literature if extensive and thorough, and a feature of the book is his analysis of the philosophical implications of literarry wroks by Sartre, Paul Valery, Camus and others.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 346g
• ISBN-13: 9780415610834
• ISBN-10: 0415610834
• Artikelnr.: 34224392

Autorenporträt

Colin Smith

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
ONE: THE SEARCH FOR SIGNIFICANCE
1. Absurdity. The gulf between man and his world. Camus
2. Transcendence. The pursuit of meaning as a necessary but 'useless passion'. Sartre
3. Participation. A vindication of being-in-itself as meaningful. Louis Lavelle
TWO: THE ROLE OF REASON AND THE CONCEPT
4. As mediation between subject and object. Alquié
5. As an assimilating force within the world. André Lalande
6. As a dissimilating force for the production of new meanings. Gaston Bachelard and E.Morot-Sir
7. The concept as expression. The extraction of provisional meanings from the permanently indeterminate. Merleau-Ponty
8. The rejection of 'expressionism'. The 'logos' as the 'rule' of thought. Brice Parain
THREE: NORMS AND VALUES
9. Closed and open evolutionary morality. Bergson's The Two Sources
10. Involutionary morality. André Lalande
11. The creation of values. Raymond Polin
12. The contingency of value. Vladimir Jankélévitch
13. Detail and atmosphere. René Le Senne
FOUR: NORMS AND VALUES
14. The instant
15. Choice
16. The authentic and the everyday. Camus
17. Universality and particularity
18. Saint-Exupéry
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index