Intermittency: The Concept of Historical Reason in Recent French Philosophy

Stoking the embers of French Hegelianism, this book looks at five recent and contemporary French philosophers: Badiou, Jambet, Lardreau, Françoise Proust and Rancière. Each produces a post—Hegelian philosophy of history founded on an assertion of the intermittency of historical value.* a sustained reflection on the character of a contemporary philosophy of history* a new and timely theory of modernity, modern literature and artKey words: Badiou; Rancière; Françoise Proust; Jambet; Lardreau;...