Judgement and Sense in Modern French Philosophy: A New Reading of Six Thinkers

by Henry Somers-Hall

Book Overview

This book proposes a radical new reading of the development of twentieth-century French philosophy. Henry Somers-Hall argues that the central unifying aspect of works by philosophers including Sartre, Foucault, Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze and Derrida is their attempt to provide an account of cognition that does not reduce thinking to judgement. Somers-Hall shows that each of these philosophers is in dialogue with the others in a shared project (however...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009048635
• ISBN13: 9781009048637
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"