French Philosophy Today

Christopher Watkin is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at Monash University. His previous publications include Phenomenology or Deconstruction?, Difficult Atheism, and French Philosophy Today.

• Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Alain Badiou: Formalised Inhumanism; 2. Quentin Meillassoux: Supreme Human Value Meets Anti-anthropocentrism; 3. Catherine Malabou: The Plastic Human; 4. Catherine Malabou: The Epigenetic Human; 5. Michel Serres: Universal Humanism; 6. Bruno Latour: Translating the Human; Conclusion; Notes; Index.

In this important book, Christopher Watkin shows us the transformations of the human in the work of five contemporary philosophers who exceed the limits of post-structuralism. His treatments of Badiou, Meillassoux, Malabou, Serres, and Latour function as valuable resources on their work and an original thesis in his own terms.