Andrew Gibson

Intermittency (eBook, PDF)

The Concept of Historical Reason in Recent French Philosophy

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the concept of historical intermittency in 5 recent French philosophersStoking the embers of French Hegelianism, this book looks at five recent and contemporary French philosophers: Badiou, Jambet, Lardreau, Francoise Proust and Ranciere. Each produces a post-Hegelian philosophy of history founded on an assertion of the intermittency of historical value.* a sustained reflection on the character of a contemporary philosophy of history* a new and timely theory of modernity, modern literature and artKey words: Badiou; Ranciere; Francoise Proust; Jambet; Lardreau; modern literature; post-Marxism; intermittency; contemporary political thought; French philosophy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748637584
• Artikelnr.: 38439596

Autorenporträt

Andrew Gibson is Research Professor of Modern Literature and Theory at Royal Holloway, University of London, and a member of the Conseil scientifique of the Collège international de philosophie in Paris. He is the author of Beckett and Badious: The Pathos of Intermittenccy (Oxford University Press, 2006), James Joyce: A Critical Life (Reaktion, 2006) and Towards a Postmodern Theory of Narrative (EUP, 1996).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Preface, Jean-Jacques Lecercle
Introduction
Kojève's Hegel
An Anti-Schematics of Historical Reason
Sartre: History and Hysteresis
The Example of Orwell
1. The Logic of Intermittency: Alain Badiou
The Structure of Intermittency
Inexistents
Custos, Quid Noctis?
The Example of Flaubert
2. Sporadic Modernity: Françoise Proust
The Beginnings of Modernity
Catastrophe in Permanence
Explosions of Justice
The Example of Wordsworth
3. A Counter-Phenomenology of Spirit: Christian Jambet
The Great Resurrection of Alamut
The Paradoxical One
The Dark Event
The Example of Rimbaud
4. Alternances Indépassables: Guy Lardreau
The Remains of History
Kanto-Lacanianism
Art and the Moment of Spirit
The Example of Kleist
5. Intermittency and Melancholy: Jacques Rancière
Egalitarian and Democratic Events
Historical Decompositions
Aesthetics and Partage
The Example of Rossellini
Conclusion: Prolegomena for a Critical Synthesis
Badiou and Speculative Realism
The Question of Rarity
The Unerasable Conviction
The Necessity of Literature
The Example of Sebald
Appendix: Lardreau: Philosophization, Negation and Veracity
Bibliography
Index.