Intermittency

Explores the concept of historical intermittency in 5 recent French philosophers Stoking the embers of French Hegelianism, this book looks at five recent and contemporary French philosophers: Badiou, Jambet, Lardreau, Francoise Proust and Ranciere. Each produces a post-Hegelian philosophy of history founded on an assertion of the intermittency of historical value. * a sustained reflection on the character of a contemporary philosophy of history * a new and timely theory of modernity, modern literature and art Key words: Badiou; Ranciere; Francoise Proust; Jambet; Lardreau; modern literature; post-Marxism; intermittency; contemporary political thought; French philosophy.

ISBN 0748637575   DEWEY edition DC23 ISBN13 9780748637577 (What's this?)   Pages 344 Publisher Edinburgh University Press   Weight (grammes) 454 Imprint Edinburgh University Press   Published in Edinburgh Format Hardback   Height (mm) 234 Publication date 06 Dec 2011   Width (mm) 156 DEWEY 111   Academic level Postgraduate

Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Preface, Jean-Jacques Lecercle; Introduction; Kojeve's Hegel; An Anti-Schematics of Historical Reason; Sartre: History and Hysteresis; The Example of Orwell; 1. The Logic of Intermittency: Alain Badiou; The Structure of Intermittency; Inexistents; Custos, Quid Noctis?; The Example of Flaubert; 2. Sporadic Modernity: Francoise Proust; The Beginnings of Modernity; Catastrophe in Permanence; Explosions of Justice; The Example of Wordsworth; 3. A Counter-Phenomenology of Spirit: Christian Jambet; The Great Resurrection of Alamut; The Paradoxical One; The Dark Event; The Example of Rimbaud; 4. Alternances Indepassables: Guy Lardreau; The Remains of History; Kanto-Lacanianism; Art and the Moment of Spirit; The Example of Kleist; 5. Intermittency and Melancholy: Jacques Ranciere; Egalitarian and Democratic Events; Historical Decompositions; Aesthetics and Partage; The Example of Rossellini; Conclusion: Prolegomena for a Critical Synthesis; Badiou and Speculative Realism; The Question of Rarity; The Unerasable Conviction; The Necessity of Literature; The Example of Sebald; Appendix: Lardreau: Philosophization, Negation and Veracity; Bibliography; Index.

This book is to my knowledge the most subtle and original study of a crucial orientation in French philosophy that took place after the heyday of the best-known great masters, now dead (Althusser, Derrida, Foucault, Lacan etc.), but which refused to ally itself with the nouvelle philosophie (Levy, Finkielkraut and their followers). Gibson clarifies what the principal representatives of this orientation have in common, what separates them, and why thought must set out from them today, even if it preserves ? as Gibson does ? a real critical distance from them. The book is without equal or rival anywhere, including France. -- Alain Badiou Gibson is not merely a skilful interpreter of texts, not merely a passeur, who enables us to discover new vistas in contemporary French philosophy, but also a philosopher in his own right...the book you are going to read is not merely a book, it is a landmark. -- Jean-Jacques Lecercle This book is to my knowledge the most subtle and original study of a crucial orientation in French philosophy that took place after the heyday of the best-known great masters, now dead (Althusser, Derrida, Foucault, Lacan etc.), but which refused to ally itself with the nouvelle philosophie (Levy, Finkielkraut and their followers). Gibson clarifies what the principal representatives of this orientation have in common, what separates them, and why thought must set out from them today, even if it preserves ? as Gibson does ? a real critical distance from them. The book is without equal or rival anywhere, including France. Gibson is not merely a skilful interpreter of texts, not merely a passeur, who enables us to discover new vistas in contemporary French philosophy, but also a philosopher in his own right...the book you are going to read is not merely a book, it is a landmark.

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