French Philosophy Today: New Figures of the Human in Badiou, Meillassoux, Malabou, Serres and LaTour

by Christopher Watkin

Book Overview

Alain Badiou, Quentin Meillassoux, Catherine Malabou, Michel Serres and Bruno Latour: this new generation of French philosophers is laying fresh claim to the human. Across a number of new strains of philosophy, they are rethinking humanity's relationships: to 'nature' and 'culture', to the objects that surround us, to the possibility of social and political change, to ecology and even to our own brains.
Christopher Watkin draws out both the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474425836
• ISBN13: 9781474425834
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"