Reframing Twentieth-Century French Philosophy : The Roots of Desire

__Reframing Twentieth-Century French Philosophy: The Roots of Desire__, edited by Elodie Boublil, investigates the works of French philosophers who have been relegated to the margins of the canon, even if their teachings and writings have been recognized as highly influential. The contributions gather around the concept of “desire” to make sense of the French philosophical debate throughout the twentieth century. The first part of the volume investigates the concept of desire by questioning the role of reflexivity in embodiment and self-constitution. It examines specifically the works of three authors—Maine de Biran, Jean Nabert, and Jean-Louis Chrétien—to highlight their specific contribution to twentieth-century French philosophy. The second part of the volume explores desire's pre-reflective and affective dynamics that resist objectification and reflexivity by analyzing the contributions of lesser-known thinkers such as Simone Weil, Sarah Kofman, and Henri Maldiney. The last part of the volume focuses on three philosophical endeavors that aim to positively rethink the foundations of phenomenology and French philosophy: Jacques Garelli, Marc Richir, and Mikel Dufrenne. Cover Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Elucidating Desire: Embodiment and Reflexivity The Lived Body Jean Nabert The Source of Desire Desire, Drives, and Imagination Seize Hold of the Hunger Sarah Kofman Henri Maldiney’s Philosophy of Existence Rhythm and Subjectivity in Maldiney and Deleuze Desire, Cosmology, and Metaphysics The Reversibility of the Flesh Phenomenological Metaphysics in Marc Richir Nature as Potentiality of the World Index About the Contributors "This collection renews contemporary debates in phenomenology, ethics, social ontology, aesthetics, and metaphysics and broadens the scope of twentieth-century French philosophy by analyzing the works and key concepts of authors who left their marks on its genesis"-- Provided by publisher