Preface
1. Continental insularity: contemporary French analytical philosophy Pascal Engel
2. The misprision of pragmatics: conceptions of language in contemporary French philosophy J. J. Lecercle
3. Ants and women, or philosophy without borders Michèle le Doeuff
4. Motifs towards a poetics Michel Deguy
5. The relevance of Cartesianism Vincent Carraud
6. The Enlightenment without the critique: a word on Michel Serres' philosophy Bruno Latour
7. The teleological and deontological structures of action: Aristotle and/or Kant? Paul Ricoeur
8. The crisis of the post-modern image Richard Kearney
9. Merleau-Ponty and the phenomenology of perception Cyril Barrett
10. Epistemological history: the legacy of Bachelard and Canguilhem Mary Tiles
11. History as genealogy: an exploration of Foucault's approach to history Elie Georges Noujain
12. Beyond deconstruction? David Wood
13. Further adventures of the dialectic: Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Althusser Gregory Elliott
14. Paradoxes of the pineal: from Descartes to Georges Bataille David Farrell Krell
Index.