French Interpretations of Heidegger: An Exceptional Reception (SUNY series in Contemporary French Thought)

"French Interpretations of Heidegger undertakes a philosophical engagement with the work of the most significant and creative figures involved in the reception of Heidegger in France. The essays address those thinkers who have been influenced by Heidegger's thought and have interpreted it in remarkable ways, including Levinas, Beaufret, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe, Irigaray, Zarader, Greisch, and Dastur. The volume explores the extraordinary impact that Heidegger's thought has had on contemporary French philosophy, including such movements as existentialism, deconstruction, feminist theory, post-structuralism, and hermeneutics, and illustrates its impact on the American continental scene as well."--Jacket Toward the end of the "French exception" / Dominique Janicaud -- Levinas's Heideggerian fantasm / Reginald Lilly -- The thoughtful dialogue between Martin Heidegger and Jean Beaufret : a new way of doing philosophy / Pierre Jacerme -- Postscripts to the "letter on 'humanism'" : Heidegger, Sartre and being-human / Dennis Skocz -- Merleau-Ponty's 1959 Heidegger lectures : the task of thinking and the possibility of philosophy today / Wayne Froman -- Self-fashioning as a response to the crisis of "ethics" : a Foucault/Heidegger Auseinandersetzung / Alan Milchman and Alan Rosenberg -- Contamination, essence, and decomposition : Heidegger and Derrida / Andrew Mitchell -- Between Deleuze and Heidegger there never is any difference / Jonathan Dronsfield -- On a divine wink / Jean-Luc Nancy -- Sticking Heidegger with a Stela : Lacoue-Labarthe, art and politics / Gregory Schufreider -- Dwelling with language : Irigaray responds / Helen A. Fielding -- Forgiving "la dette impensée" : being Jewish and reading Heidegger / Allen Scult -- The poverty of Heidegger's "last God" / Jean Greisch -- The reception and nonreception of Heidegger in France / Françoise Dastur.

A sustained philosophical engagement with significant and creative French interpretation of Heidegger.