Contemporary French Philosophy (Routledge Revivals): A Study in Norms and Values

by Colin Smith

Overview

First published in 1964, this is not just a chronicle or encyclopaedia, but deals thoroughly in turn with meaning, view about reason, and views about values, particularly moral values. The author's knowledge of French literature is extensive and thorough, and a feature of the book is his analysis of the philosophical implications of literary works by Sartre, Paul Valery, Camus and others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415610704
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/20/2010
Series:	Routledge Revivals
Pages:	274
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface, Introduction, ONE: THE SEARCH FOR SIGNIFICANCE, 1. Absurdity. The gulf between man and his world. Camus, 2. Transcendence. The pursuit of meaning as a necessary but ‘useless passion’. Sartre, 3. Participation. A vindication of being-in-itself as meaningful. Louis Lavelle, TWO: THE ROLE OF REASON AND THE CONCEPT, 4. As mediation between subject and object. Alquié, 5. As an assimilating force within the world. André Lalande, 6. As a dissimilating force for the production of new meanings. Gaston Bachelard and E.Morot-Sir, 7. The concept as expression. The extraction of provisional meanings from the permanently indeterminate. Merleau-Ponty, 8. The rejection of ‘expressionism’. The ‘logos’ as the ‘rule’ of thought. Brice Parain, THREE: NORMS AND VALUES, 9. Closed and open evolutionary morality. Bergson’s The Two Sources, 10. Involutionary morality. André Lalande, 11. The creation of values. Raymond Polin, 12. The contingency of value. Vladimir Jankélévitch, 13. Detail and atmosphere. René Le Senne, FOUR: NORMS AND VALUES, 14. The instant, 15. Choice, 16. The authentic and the everyday. Camus, 17. Universality and particularity, 18. Saint-Exupéry, Conclusion, Bibliography, Index