French Interpretations of Heidegger: An Exceptional Reception

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David Pettigrew, François Raffoul
State University of New York Press, Sep 22, 2008 - Philosophy - 308 pages
French Interpretations of Heidegger undertakes a philosophical engagement with the work of the most significant and creative figures involved in the reception of Heidegger in France. The essays address those thinkers who have been influenced by Heidegger's thought and have interpreted it in remarkable ways, including Levinas, Beaufret, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe, Irigaray, Zarader, Greisch, and Dastur. The volume explores the extraordinary impact that Heidegger's thought has had on contemporary French philosophy, including such movements as existentialism, deconstruction, feminist theory, post-structuralism, and hermeneutics, and illustrates its impact on the American continental scene as well.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
1 Toward the End of the French Exception?
23
2 Levinass Heideggerian Fantasm
35
A New Way of Doing Philosophy
59
Heidegger Sartre and BeingHuman
73
The Task of Thinking and the Possibility of Philosophy Today
89
A FoucaultHeidegger AUSEINANDERSETZUNG
103
Heidegger and Derrida
131
9 On a Divine WINK
167
LacoueLabartheArt and Politics
187
Irigaray Responds
215
Being Jewish and Reading Heidegger
231
13 The Poverty of Heideggers Last God
245
14 The Reception and Nonreception of Heidegger in France
265
Contributors
291
Index
295

8 Between Deleuze and Heidegger There Never Is Any Difference
151

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David Pettigrew is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University. François Raffoul is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Louisiana State University. Together, they have translated many books, including The Creation of the World or Globalization by Jean-Luc Nancy and The Book of Love and Pain: Thinking at the Limit with Freud and Lacan by Juan-David Nasio, both also published by SUNY Press.

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