Browse — tag · french-philosophy

Tag: french-philosophy

Pages tagged with french-philosophy.

69 pages

• Alexandre Kojève

  Russian-born French philosopher, anthropologist of Hegel, the dominant figure of the French Hegel-Renaissance of the 1930s. Author of the Introduction à la lecture de Hegel (Gallimard, 1947, ed. Raymond Queneau) — the published form of his…

• André Bazin

  French film theorist (1918–1958); co-founder of Cahiers du cinéma (1951) and spiritual father of the Nouvelle Vague. For the purposes of this wiki he matters because he is the only contemporary cinema figure whom Merleau-Ponty names in the…

• André Malraux

  French novelist, art theorist, Resistance hero, and statesman (1901–1976). Author of Les Voix du silence (1951; English: The Voices of Silence, 1953), the three-volume Psychologie de l'Art (1947, 1949, 1950: Le Musée imaginaire / La Créati…

• Blaise Pascal

  French mathematician, physicist, religious thinker, and writer (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662). Author of the Pensées (posthumous; compositional fragments 1657–62), the Provincial Letters (1656–57), De l'esprit géométrique (c. 1657), works…

• Claude Lefort

  French political philosopher (1924–2010), Merleau-Ponty's student, literary executor, and principal editor of the posthumous course notes and working manuscripts. In the wiki's context, the editor of The Visible and the Invisible (1964) an…

• Claude Lévi-Strauss

  French anthropologist (1908–2009), founder of structural anthropology, and Merleau-Ponty's friend and colleague at the Collège de France. In Signs' "From Mauss to Claude Lévi-Strauss" (1959), MP reads Lévi-Strauss as the successor to Marce…

• Cory Stockwell

  Translator of Jean-Luc Nancy's The Fragile Skin of the World (Polity, 2021), from the French La Peau fragile du monde (Galilée, 2020). The translator's notes in this volume are philosophically load-bearing — they unpack lexical-conceptual…

• Creative Evolution Henri Bergson, 1907

  Author(s): Henri Bergson · Year: 1907 (trans. Donald A. Landes, Routledge 2023) · Type: book

• Daniel Guérin

  French historian, anarchist-communist activist, and political writer (1904–1988); author of La Lutte des classes sous la Première République (2 vols., 1946), Fascisme et grand capital (1936), Où va le peuple américain? (1950), and many wor…

• Didier Franck

  French phenomenologist (b. 1947), professor at Paris-Nanterre. Best known on the wiki for Chair et corps: Sur la phénoménologie de Husserl (Minuit 1981) — the major French study of Husserl's phenomenology of flesh and body, which proposed…

• Emmanuel de Saint Aubert

  French philosopher and leading contemporary interpreter of Merleau-Ponty. Affiliated with the Husserl Archives in Paris (UMR 8547 ENS/CNRS). Author of a five-volume sequence that has systematically reconstructed MP's thought from the unpub…

• Emmanuel Levinas

  Lithuanian-born French philosopher (1906-1995). Author of Totality and Infinity (1961), Otherwise than Being (1974), and Existence and Existents (1947). In Knight's reading, Levinas is the principal counter-figure to Merleau-Ponty's elemen…

• Emmanuel Mounier

  French Catholic philosopher (1905–1950), founder and editor of the journal Esprit (1932– ), and central figure of the mid-twentieth-century personalist movement. Author of Manifeste au service du personnalisme (Aubier, 1936), Traité du car…

• Franck Robert

  French Merleau-Ponty scholar; co-editor of Le problème de la parole (MétisPresses 2020) and author of its postface, "Vers l'ontologie" (pp. 237-263). Also transcribed and edited MP's 1960 Collège de France course on Husserl's Origin of Geo…

• Gabriel Marcel

  French Christian existentialist philosopher (1889–1973); author of Métaphysical Journal (1927), Être et avoir (1935; English: Being and Having 1949), Du refus à l'invocation (1940), Le Mystère de l'être (1951). One of the early-MP's princi…

• Gaston Bachelard

  French philosopher of science and imagination (1884-1962). Author of Water and Dreams (1942), The Psychoanalysis of Fire (1938), The Poetics of Space (1958), and numerous other works on the material imagination. Knight argues that Bachelar…

• Georges Bataille

  Georges Bataille (1897–1962) was a French philosopher, novelist, and essayist whose reading of Nietzsche — and whose conception of sovereignty, expenditure, and the sacred — formed the milieu from which Pierre Klossowski's Nietzsche and th…

• Georges Canguilhem

  French philosopher, physician, and historian of science (1904–1995), author of The Normal and the Pathological (1943), and one of the central pedagogical and institutional figures of twentieth-century French thought — a "point of contact"…

• Gilbert Simondon

  French philosopher (1924–1989) best known for his theory of individuation and for his rehabilitation of the philosophical significance of technical objects. On this wiki he matters primarily as the background figure behind dividuation (Car…

• Gilles Deleuze

  French philosopher (1925–1995), author of Difference and Repetition (1968), Logic of Sense (1969), and (with Félix Guattari) Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980). Although a generation younger than Merleau-Ponty and not typic…

• Gregarious vs. Singular

  The opposition between the gregarious (grégaire — that which conserves the species: exchangeable, communicable, intelligible) and the singular (the cas singulier / fortuitous case — unexchangeable, mute, unintelligible) is the second of th…

• Henri Bergson

  French philosopher (1859-1941), Nobel laureate (1927), author of Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience (1889), Matter and Memory (1896), Creative Evolution (1907), The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932), and Thought an…

• Henri Maldiney

  French philosopher, phenomenologist of art and aesthetic experience, professor at the École des Hautes Études of Ghent and (from 1955–56) the University of Lyon. MP's earliest interlocuteur attentif and — per the Inédits I (Mimésis 2022) e…

• Henri Wallon

  French developmental psychologist and Marxist politician (1879–1962), founder of the Enfance journal. For the purposes of this wiki, Wallon matters as the primary empirical source of Merleau-Ponty's 1950–51 Sorbonne course on The Child's R…

• Jacques Derrida

  French philosopher (1930–2004), founder of deconstruction, author of Of Grammatology (1967), Writing and Difference (1967), Margins of Philosophy (1972), The Truth in Painting (1978), The Post Card (1980), Specters of Marx (1993), On Touch…

• Jacques Maritain

  French Catholic philosopher (1882–1973), associated with the Thomist revival and the Catholic-personalist movement. Author of Humanisme intégral (1936) / True Humanism — the cardinal Catholic-personalist political-philosophical statement o…

• Jean Hyppolite

  French philosopher, the dominant Hegel-translator-and-commentator of the post-war French philosophical scene; MP's ENS condisciple, longtime friend, and intellectual interlocutor. Author of the historic French translation of Hegel's Phänom…

• Jean Wahl

  French philosopher, the principal passeur of Hegel and Kierkegaard into French philosophy from the 1920s through the 1950s. Author of Le Malheur de la conscience dans la philosophie de Hegel (1929) — the foundational French Hegel-commentar…

• Jean-Christophe Bailly

  French writer, philosopher, poet, and essayist (b. 1949). Author of works on poetry, art, geography, animals, and time, often at the intersection of philosophy and literature. Close interlocutor of Nancy; co-editor (with Nancy) of La Compa…

• Jean-François Lyotard

  French philosopher (1924–1998); phenomenologist-turned-figural-theorist and later theorist of the "postmodern condition." For the purposes of this wiki he is primarily relevant as Carbone's interlocutor on the ontology of the screen — the…

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Genevan-French philosopher (1712–1778), author of Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes (1755), Du contrat social (1762), Émile, ou De l'éducation (1762), Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse (1761), Les Confess…

• Jean-Louis Chrétien

  French Catholic phenomenologist and poet (1952–2019). Major figure of what Dominique Janicaud (in The Theological Turn of French Phenomenology, 1991) named the "theological turn" of French phenomenology — alongside Levinas, Michel Henry, J…

• Jean-Luc Nancy

  French philosopher (1940-2021), major figure in contemporary continental philosophy. Author of works on community (The Inoperative Community), the body (Corpus, Corpus II, Sexistence, Marquage manquant), art (The Muses, Noli me tangere, Ad…

• Jean-Paul Sartre

  French philosopher, novelist, and public intellectual (1905–1980). Merleau-Ponty's closest philosophical interlocutor through the 1940s and early 1950s, co-founder with MP of Les Temps Modernes (1945), and the addressee of the Introduction…

• Lucien Febvre

  French historian (1878–1956), co-founder of the Annales school of historiography with Marc Bloch. In the wiki's context, the positive model of historical method in Merleau-Ponty's 1954–55 Institution and Passivity course. MP reads Febvre's…

• Léon Brunschvicg

  French neo-Kantian philosopher (1869–1944); Sorbonne professor (1909–40); a dominant figure in French academic philosophy during MP's formation (late 1920s–early 1930s). Author of Les Étapes de la philosophie mathématique (1912), Le Progrè…

• Maine de Biran

  French philosopher (1766–1824) of the body's motor-evidence and of the fait primitif. Author of the Essai sur les fondements de la psychologie et sur ses rapports avec l'étude de la nature. Per Saint Aubert (2006 Ch II §2), Biran is a card…

• Maurice Blanchot

  French writer, philosopher, and literary critic (22 September 1907 – 20 February 2003; cremated 24 February 2003). Author of Thomas l'obscur (1941), Aminadab (1942), Le Très-Haut (1948), La part du feu (1949), L'espace littéraire (1955), L…

• Maurice Blondel

  French Catholic philosopher (1861–1949), author of L'Action (1893) and L'Être et les êtres. Essai d'ontologie concrète et intégrale (1935). Per Saint Aubert (2006 Ch III §2b), Blondel is the cardinal genealogical source for Merleau-Ponty's…

• Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  French phenomenologist and philosopher (1908-1961). Professor at the Collège de France from 1952 until his sudden death from a heart attack on May 3, 1961 — he was reading Descartes's Dioptrique and preparing notes for his course "Cartesia…

• Maurice Nédoncelle

  French Catholic philosopher (1905–1976), close to the Mounier / Esprit circle and a major contributor to the personalist literature. Author of La Réciprocité des consciences (Aubier, 1942), La Personne humaine et la nature (PUF), and many…

• Mauro Carbone

  Italian philosopher (b. 1956) working primarily in French; specialist in Merleau-Ponty's aesthetics and ontology, and in the philosophical significance of cinema and digital screens. Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France; P…

• Michel de Montaigne

  French Renaissance philosopher (1533–1592), author of the Essais. Merleau-Ponty reads Montaigne in Signs' "Reading Montaigne" (1947) as a proto-phenomenologist of incarnation — the first modern philosopher who takes "the 'mixture' of the s…

• Michel Foucault

  French philosopher and historian of systems of thought. Author of Folie et déraison: Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique (1961), Naissance de la clinique (1963), Raymond Roussel (1963), Les Mots et les choses (1966), L'Archéologie du sa…

• Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle Pierre Klossowski, 1997

  Author(s): Pierre Klossowski (trans. Daniel W. Smith) · Year: 1969 (Fr.) / 1997 (Eng.) · Type: book

• Paul Ricoeur

  French philosopher (1913–2005) of phenomenology and hermeneutics. In the wiki's corpus Ricoeur figures principally as: (a) the philosopher whose 1973 dictum "the philosophical basis of the major book of 1945 [Phenomenology of Perception] h…

• Personalism Emmanuel Mounier, 1952

  Author: Emmanuel Mounier · Year: 1950 (French; English trans. Mairet 1952) · Type: book

• Personalism

  Mounier's synthesizing term for the mid-twentieth-century philosophical-political movement that affirms the person (la personne) — neither a thing nor a definition but "the one reality that we know, and that we are at the same time fashion…

• Phantasm

  In Pierre Klossowski's Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle, the phantasm (phantasme) is "an obsessional image produced instinctively from the life of the impulses" (Translator's Preface §4) — an involuntary formation that arises from the comb…

• Philippe Grosos

  French philosopher; author of Des profondeurs de nos cavernes — Préhistoire – Art – Philosophie (Paris: Les éditions du Cerf, 2021), a book-length philosophical engagement with prehistoric cave art. Grosos advocates a shift in philosophica…

• Pierre Klossowski

  Pierre Klossowski (1905–2001) was a French novelist, essayist, translator, and painter whose Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle (1969) is one of the most influential and idiosyncratic readings of Nietzsche in twentieth-century European thoug…

• Quentin Meillassoux

  French philosopher (b. 1967), central figure in the speculative realist movement that emerged from the April 2007 Goldsmiths College workshop. Author of Après la finitude (2006; After Finitude, trans. Brassier 2008) — the foundational SR t…

• Raymond Aron

  French philosopher, sociologist, political commentator. ENS condisciple of Sartre and MP (1924); agrégé 1928; doctorate 1938 with the Introduction à la philosophie de l'histoire — the work MP critiques continuously from the Brussels 1946 l…

• Raymond Ruyer

  French philosopher (1902–1987), specialist in the philosophy of biology and animal behavior. In the wiki's context, Merleau-Ponty's primary source for the animal and embryological material in the 1954–55 Institution course. MP follows Ruye…

• Renaud Barbaras

  French phenomenologist (b. 1955), Professor at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Largely credited with sparking the Merleau-Ponty "renaissance" in French phenomenology in the early 1990s. Author of The Being of the Phenomenon: Merleau-…

• René Descartes

  French philosopher and mathematician (1596–1650). Already pervasive in this wiki as a topic (the cogito, the Cartesian way that Merleau-Ponty and Husserl both contest; "Descartes as a cultural institution … singular like a tone, a style, o…

• Semiotic of Impulses

  The semiotic of impulses is the organizing concept of Pierre Klossowski's Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle (its longest chapter is titled "The Valetudinary States at the Origin of a Semiotic of Impulses"). The impulses (impulsions) are "in…

• Simone de Beauvoir

  French philosopher, novelist, and public intellectual (1908–1986). Educated at the École Normale Supérieure during the same period as Merleau-Ponty (Sorbonne / ENS late-1920s); lifelong intellectual partner of Sartre; author of Le deuxième…

• Simulacrum

  In Pierre Klossowski's Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle, the simulacrum (simulacre; Ger. Trugbild) is the willed reproduction of a phantasm — "the actualization of something in itself incommunicable and nonrepresentable: the phantasm in it…

• The Agent (suppôt)

  The agent is Daniel W. Smith's rendering of Klossowski's suppôt — a term retrieved from scholastic philosophy (Latin suppositum, "that which is placed under," linked to substantia and subjectum) and applied to a Nietzschean problem. In Nie…

• The Vicious Circle as a Selective Doctrine

  The longest and most politically charged chapter of Pierre Klossowski's Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle reads the Eternal Return not only as a lived experience but as a selective doctrine — "a means of training and selection" (Nietzsche's…

• The Voices of Silence André Malraux, 1953

  Author(s): André Malraux (1901–1976) Year: 1953 (English) / 1951 (French Les Voix du silence) Type: book

• Thinking through French Philosophy: The Being of the Question Leonard Lawlor, 2003

  Author: Leonard Lawlor (University of Memphis, Department of Philosophy) · Year: 2003 · Type: book (collected essays, revised; Indiana University Press, Studies in Continental Thought series)

• Tonality of the Soul

  The tonality of the soul (tonalité de l'âme) is Pierre Klossowski's term — retained by Daniel W. Smith as "tonality" because the usage "is as unusual in French as it is in English" (Translator's Preface §3) — for the fluctuating intensitie…

• Valetudinary States

  In Pierre Klossowski's Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle, Nietzsche's valetudinary states — his recurrent, incapacitating illness (the migraine/convalescence cycles of roughly 1877–1881, with their alternations of collapse and euphoric luci…

• Vers une ontologie indirecte Emmanuel de Saint Aubert, 2006

  Author: Emmanuel de Saint Aubert Year: 2006 Type: book Subtitle: Sources et enjeux critiques de l'appel à l'ontologie chez Merleau-Ponty Publisher: Vrin, Bibliothèque d'histoire de la philosophie ISBN: 978-2-7116-1852-1

• Vincent Descombes

  French philosopher (b. 1943) working in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and social philosophy. Major works include L'inconscient malgré lui (1977), Grammaire d'objets en tous genres (1983), Les institutions du sens (The Institu…

• Éric Weil

  German-born French philosopher, naturalized 1938. Author of Logique de la philosophie (Vrin 1950) and Hegel et l'État (Vrin 1950) — both works on Hegel and post-Hegelian philosophy. Parallel reader of Hegel to MP in the late 1940s; lecture…

• Être et chair chez Merleau-Ponty Emmanuel de Saint Aubert, 2023

  Author: Emmanuel de Saint Aubert Year: 2023 Type: Paper (lecture-derived article, French) Publication: Ágora Filosófica 23(3), pp. 5–35. DOI: 10.25247/P1982-999X.2023.v23n3.p05-35 HAL: hal-04284557 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)