"French Philosophy in the Twentieth Century" by Gary Gutting (Repost)

In this book Gary Gutting tells, clearly and comprehensively, the story of French philosophy from 1890 to 1990. He examines the often neglected background of spiritualism, university idealism, and early philosophy of science, and also discusses the privileged role of philosophy in the French education system.

Together with the influences of avant-garde literature and German philosophy, author develops a rich account of existential phenomenology, which he argues is the central achievement of French thought during the century, and of subsequent structuralist and poststructuralist developments.

Contents
Preface
A note on references
List of abbreviations
PART I: THE PHILOSOPHERS OF THE THIRD REPUBLIC (1890-1940)
1 Fin-de-siecle: the professors of the Republic
Philosophy and the new university
Positivism
Spiritualism: Ravaisson and Renouvier
Idealism: Lachelier and Boutroux
2 Science and idealism
Philosophers of science: Poincare, Duhem, and Meyerson
Brunschvicg
3 Bergson
Bergson on the history of philosophy
Time and free will
Matter and memory
Creative evolution
Religion and morality
4 Between the wars
Bachelard
Blondel
Neo-Thomism and Maritain
Marcel
Toward the concrete
PART II: THE REIGN OF EXISTENTIAL PHENOMENOLOGY (1940-1960)
5 Sartre
Being and nothingness
Background
The basic ontological scheme
Consciousness
Nothingness and anguish
Bad faith
Being-for-others
Freedom
Critique of dialectical reason
6 Beauvoir
Beauvoir and the origins of existentialism
The second sex
7 Merleau-Ponty
The phenomenology of perception
Merleau-Ponty’s conception of phenomenology
The body
Language
The Other
The cogito and the truth of idealism
Freedom
Phenomenology and structuralism
PART III: STRUCTURALISM AND BEYOND (1960-1990)
8 The structuralist invasion
Saussure
Levi-Strauss
Structuralism and phenomenology
Philosophy of the concept: Cavailles, Canguilhem, and Serres
The high tide of structuralism
Marx and Althusser
Freud, Lacan, and Kristeva
Barthes
Poststructuralism
9 Foucault
Madness
Order
Discipline
Sex
10 Derrida
Deconstruction
Differance
Is Derrida a skeptic?
Ethics
Religion
11 Philosophies of difference
Lyotard
Deleuze
Irigaray
12 Fin-de-siècle again: “le temps retrouvé”?
Levinas
Ricoeur
Recent directions
Conclusion: the philosophy of freedom
Appendix: Philosophy and the French educational system
References
Index