Contemporary French Philosophy

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.