French Philosophy Since 1945

Etienne Balibar, Professor Emeritus, Université de Paris I, and Distinguished Professor at University of California, Irvine, is one of Europe’s leading political philosophers. He is the author of Masses, Classes, and Ideas, We the People of Europe?, and Spinoza and Politics and is a co-author of Reading Capital. He is based in Paris.John Rajchman is an associate professor at Columbia University and a visiting professor at Princeton University. The author of Truth and Eros, Constructions, and The Deleuze Connections, he has also written widely about contemporary art and architecture and contributed a foreword to The Chomsky-Foucault Debate (The New Press). He lives in New York.

• Series PrefacePermissionsIntroductionI. In Search of a New CritiqueJules Vuillemin, The Kantian Heritage and the Copernican Revolution (1954)Michel Foucault, Introduction to Kant's Anthropology (1961)Paul Ricoeur, Freud and Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation (1965)Louis Althusser, "Marxism and Humanism" (1967)Jacques Derrida, "The Ends of Man" (1972)Michel Foucault, "What Is Critique?" (1978)Gilles Deleuze, "On Four Poetic Formulas" (1993)Claude Imbert, For a History of Logic (1999)II. Histories of TruthJean Cavaillès and Albert Lautman, "Mathematical Thought" (1946)Jacques Lacan, "Intervention on Transference" (1952)Michel Foucault, "Alexander Koyré: The Astronomical Revolution, Copernicus, Kepler, Borelli" (1961)Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology (1967)Jacques Derrida, Edmund Husserl's Origin of Geometry: An Introduction (1962)Michel Foucault, "Elements for a History of Truth" (1974)Pierre-Francois Moreau, "Image, Idea" (1975)Julia Kristeva, "The True-Real" (1979)Gilles Deleuze, "The Powers of the False" (1985)Alain Badiou, "Veracity and Truth" (1988)III. Questions of DifferenceClaude Lévi-Strauss, Introduction to the Work of Marcel Mauss (1950)Maurice Merleau-Ponty, In Praise of Philosophy (1953) Gilles Deleuze, "Bergson's Conception of Difference" (1956)Jacques Derrida, "Différance" (1968)Jean-François Lyotard, The Differend: Phrases in Dispute (1983)Jacques Rancière, Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy (1995)Jacques Derrida, "As If It Were Possible, 'Within Such Limits'" (2001)Michel Foucault, Fearless Speech (1983)IV. EventVictor Goldschmidt, The Stoic System and the Idea of Time (1953)Jean-Paul Sartre, Search for a Method (1960)Louis Althusser and Etienne Balibar, "The Errors of Classical Economics: Outline of a Concept of Historical Time" (1968)Gilles Deleuze, The Logic of Sense (1969)Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition (1968)Michel Foucault, "Eventalization" (1978)Jacques Derrida, Psyche: Inventions of the Other, Volume I (1987)Alain Badiou, "The Event as Trans-Being" (1998)V. SubjectSimone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949)Georges Bataille, "Sovereignty" (1954)Georges Canguilhem, "What Is Psychology?" (1958)Jacques Lacan and Jeffrey Mehlman, "Responses to Students of Philosophy Concerning the Object of Psychoanalysis" (1966)Maurice Blanchot, "The Absence of the Book" (1969)Jacques Bouveresse, "The Myth of Interiority" (1976)Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus (1980)Maurice Florence aka Michel Foucault, "Foucault" (1984)Emmanuel Levinas, "Outside the Subject" (1987) Luce Irigaray, "Love Between Us" (1989)Jacques Derrida, "'Eating Well,' or the Calculation of the Subject: An Interview with Jacques Derrida" (1989)Gilles Deleuze, "Immanence: A Life" (1995)VI. Institution and InsurrectionMaurice Merleau-Ponty, "A Note on Machiavelli" (1960)Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: Vol. 1, an Introduction (1976)Michel Foucault, "Course Summary" (1976)Sarah Kofman, Respect for Women (1982)Gilles Deleuze, "Preface to The Savage Anomaly" (1982)Jean-Claude Milner, Indistinct Names (1983)Jacques Rancière, "The Community of Equals" (1992)Marcel Gauchet, The Revolution of the Rights of Man (1989)Jacques Derrida, Politics of Friendship (1994) Jean-Luc Nancy, Being Singular Plural (1996)Claude Lefort, "Disincorporation and Reincorporation of Power" and "Voluntary Servitude" (1999)VII. Thinking in ArtMaurice Merleau-Ponty, "Eye and Mind" (1964)Michel Foucault, "Of Other Spaces" (1967)Michel Foucault, "Words and Images" (1967)Jean-François Lyotard, Discourse, Figure (1971)Henri Maldiney, Gaze, Speech, Space (1973) Jacques Derrida, "Economimesis" (1975)Gilles Deleuze, "What Is a Dispositif?"(1988)Jacques Rancière, The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible (2000)A Chronology of Works and Events