- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks (8 Feb 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0192892487
- ISBN-13: 978-0192892485
- Product Dimensions: 20.2 x 12.6 x 1.5 cm
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the reader who comes to this area for the first time will gain a definite sense of an intellectual movement with its own rigour... (Garrett Barden, author of After Principles )
Garrett Barden, author of After Principles
"the reader who comes to this area for the first time will gain a definite sense of an intellectual movement with its own rigour..."
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According to the traditional conception of philosophy, there is an air of paradox about devoting a study to twentieth-century French philosophy. Read the first page
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Good source for generarl information on the topic
8 Nov 2002
Format:Paperback
I read this book having already a knowledge of some of the philosophers included. I found the book to be a very important introduction to the ones that I had not read.
In particular, I think that the section on Bergson was appropriately respectful and the explanation of Sartre's "Bad Faith" was excellent. Also, the last two chapters (on Poststructuralism and Recent French Feminism) were clearly written (and these modern topics are in desperate need of clarity).
This type of book is, to me, important not only for giving the reader general information about a topic, but also for finding others (in this case philosophers) who we may not have been aware of, and we may be interested in reading more of, and of their works themselves. Personally, I found myself more interested in Levinas than I had been previously.
I do have some criticisms of the book. There is an obvious slant in the book away from Sartre and in favor of Merleau-Ponty. At times, the criticisms seem unfair. Also, I find the criticisms of Camus (he "was not, in the technical sense, a philosopher at all") to be anti-continental (in a book which is trying to bridge the gap!). Finally, I find problems in the later chapters (about Derrida and co.) in the sections in which the author critically analyzes the philosophers. Matthews' arguments, at that point, seem poor in general and one-dimentional.
Even though there are some problems, I do strongly recommend this book. Matthews has done a fine job with his choice of philosophers, choice of format & length, and choice of level of clarity.
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Good for college students
20 Oct 2000
Format:Paperback
This book will provide an great inroduction for those new in the subject of modern philosohpy (in particular French), and as well as an great analysis on some of the ideas of the philosophers mentioned. Its really geared for the philosophy student as reference and notes. If you can't read the agonizingly long "Being and Nothingness," the summarization done by the author in this novel should work as a fine subsiutute.
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