new figures of the human in Badiou, Meillassoux, Malabou, Serres and Latour /
First Statement of Responsibility
Christopher Watkin.
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Edinburgh :
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Edinburgh University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2016.
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1 online resource (xii, 258 pages)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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A comparative critique of the human in Alain Badiou, Quentin Meillassoux, Catherine Malabou, Michel Serres and Bruno Latour. Contemporary French philosophy is laying fresh claim to the human. Through a series of independent, simultaneous initiatives, arising in the writing of diverse current French thinkers, the figured of the human is being transformed and reworked. Christopher Watkin draws out both the promises and perils inherent in these attempts to rethink humanity's relation to 'nature' and 'culture', to the objects that surround us, to the possibility of social and political change, to ecology and even to our own brains. This comparative assessment makes visible for the first time one of the most important trends in French thought today.
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JSTOR
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22573/ctt1bh11hz
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French Philosophy today.
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9781474414739
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Philosophy, French-- 21st century-- Criticism and interpretation.