Article: Twentieth-century French philosophy; key themes and thinkers.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Article: Adora Svitak likes French philosophy, reads three ...
The Mirror (London, England);  September 28, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... reasoned that books for her age group weren't challenging her so she tucked into something altogether more serious - 17th-century French philosopher Voltaire. "I've been reading his novel Candide," she says, with the nonchalance other kids reserve for ...

Article: The dictionary of seventeenth-century French ...
Reference & Research Book News;  February 1, 2009 ;     589 words ...9780826418616 The dictionary of seventeenth-century French philosophers; 2v. Ed. by Luc Foisneau. Thoemmes ... aiming to demonstrate the diversity and depth of French philosophy over the long 17th century, rather than just dwelling ...

Article: Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in ...
Afterimage;  November 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... backdrop in which we might consider Martin Jay's book Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Philosophy (1993). In the last decade and a half we have been confronted with the intellectual and academic phenomenon ...

Article: `The Mediocracy of French Philosophy Since the ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  August 8, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... Frenchman ridicule the glories of French philosophy? Well, the French, you know ... University of Paris VII, charges that French philosophy today teems with "mediocre thinkers ... re not intellectually devoted to French philosophy, your mental file on French philosophy ...

Article: Lawlor, Leonard. Thinking through French ...
The Review of Metaphysics;  December 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Leonard. Thinking through French Philosophy: The Being of the Question ... 95--Thinking through French Philosophy has two objectives. First ... Platonism." Thinking through French Philosophy is a welcome sc

Article: God returns to French ...
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... IS considered by many the founder of modern philosophy, but among the French he is considered even more the founder of French philosophy, the medium through which every aspiring French philosopher must pass. So perhaps it is not surprising that the acclaimed ...

Article: FRENCH PHILOSOPHY New manager Paul Le Guen is ...
The Sunday Herald;  July 23, 2006 ;     700+ words ...WHEN David Murray unveiled the new Rangers manager, he alluded to his belief that part of the reason Paul Le Guen had signed on at Ibrox rather than with Lazio, Olympiakos, Lokomotiv Moscow or any of the other clubs who had courted him was that the Frenchman liked a challenge. There is certainly