Dialectics Beyond Dialectics: Translated by Cain Elliott and Jan Burzynski

by Malgorzata Kowalska

Overview

The book deals with contemporary French philosophy from Bataille to Derrida (Sartre, Aron, Levinas, Foucault, Deleuze, Lyotard etc.).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631626788
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	03/29/2015
Series:	Modernity in Question: Studies in Philosophy and History of Ideas , #8
Pages:	273
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Małgorzata Kowalska is professor of Philosophy at the University of Białystok (Poland). She specializes in French philosophy and moral and political philosophy. Her field of interest comprises Sartre, Levinas and other French contemporary thinkers, the idea of democracy and that of Europe.

Table of Contents

Contents: Spectres of totality – Criticism of the idea of totality as insufficient – Dangerous, impossible totality and identity – Aspects of difference: division and dispersion – Divided and dispersed subject, devided and dispersed history – Dialectics as the way of thinking totality and difference – Modernity and postmodernity – Dialectics and «postdialectics» – Bataille, Levinas, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Aron, Foucault, Deleuze, Lyotard, Derrida.

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