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Philosophy in Turbulent Times: Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, Derrida

Author(s) : Elisabeth Roudinesco, Translator : William McCuaig

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Canguilhem, for example, was a distinguished philosopher of science who had a great influence on Foucault's exploration of sanity and madness-themes Althusser lived in a notorious personal drama. And in dramatizing the life of Freud for the screen, Sartre fundamentally altered his own philosophical approach to psychoanalysis. Roudinesco launches a passionate defense of Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, and Derrida against the 'new philosophers' of the late 1970s and 1980s, who denounced the work - and sometimes the private lives - of this great generation. Roudinesco refutes attempts to tar them, as well as the Marxist and left-wing tradition in general, with the brush of Soviet-style communism.

Contents:
Introduction: In Defense of Critical Thought Note on the Text 1. Georges Canguilhem: A Philosophy of Heroism 2. Jean-Paul Sartre: Psychoanalysis on the Shadowy Banks of the Danube 3. Michel Foucault: Readings of History of Madness 4. Louis Althusser: The Murder Scene 5. Gilles Deleuze: Anti-Oedipal Variations 6. Jacques Derrida: The Moment of Death Select Bibliography

Author Biography:
Elisabeth Roudinesco is director of research at the University of Paris and director of studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes-Etudes, Sorbonne. She is the author of a number of critically acclaimed works, including "Jacques Lacan" and "Why Psychoanalysis?"