1st Edition
Problems in Twentieth Century French Philosophy
Foreword: Problems in Twentieth-Century French Philosophy Introduction: Problematizing Problems 1. The Misadventures of the "Problem" in "Philosophy": From Kant to Deleuze 2. Bergson’s Method of Problematisation and the Pursuit of Metaphysical Precision 3. An Anti-Positivist Conception of Problems: Deleuze, Bergson and the French Epistemological Tradition 4. Cavaillès, Mathematical Problems and Questions 5. Lautman on Problems as the Conditions of Existence of Solutions 6. Simondon on the Notion of the Problem: A Genetic Schema of Individuation 7. On the Problem and Mystery of Evil: Marcel’s Existential Dissolution of an Antinomy 8. Towards A Phenomenology of Sagesse: Uncovering the Unique Philosophical Problematic of Pierre Hadot 9. The Errors of History: Knowledge and Epistemology in Bachelard, Canguilhem and Foucault 10. Problematizing the Problematic: Foucault and Althusser 11. Foucault, Psychoanalysis, and Critique: Two Aspects of Problematization 12. Problematization in Foucault’s Genealogy and Deleuze’s Symptomatology: Or, How to Study Sexuality Without Invoking Oppositions
Biography
Sean Bowden is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of The Priority of Events: Deleuze’s Logic of Sense (2011).
Mark G.E. Kelly is Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University, Australia. His most recent book is For Foucault: Against Normative Political Theory (2018).
