French Hegel: From Surrealism to Postmodernism

by Bruce Baugh

Overview

This highly original history of ideas considers the impact of Hegel on French philosophy from the 1920s to the present. As Baugh's lucid narrative makes clear, Hegel's influence on French philosophy has been profound, and can be traced through all the major intellectual movements and thinkers in France throughout the 20th Century from Jean Wahl, Sartre, and Bataille to Foucault, Deleuze, and Derrida. Baugh focuses on Hegel's idea of the unhappy consciousness, and provides a bold new account of Hegel's early reception in French intellectual history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317827719
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/21/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Bruce Baugh is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University College of Cariboo.

Table of Contents

Introduction. French Hegel and the Unhappy Consciousness Chapter 1. The anthropological turn Chapter 2. Pantragicism Chapter 3. The existential protest: Wahl and Fondane Chapter 4. The uses of negativity: Breton and Lefebvre Chapter 5. Bataille: negativity unemployed Chapter 6. The unhappy consciousness in Sartre's philosophy Chapter 7. The persistence of the unhappy consciousness: Derrida Chapter 8. Beyond Hegel? Deleuze, Foucault and the new empiricism Conclusion. The career of the unhappy consciousness in France Notes Select Bibliography Index