Philosophy in Turbulent Times: Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, Derrida
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (764 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0231143001 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-07 |
| Language | : | French |
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And in dramatizing the life of Freud for the screen, Sartre fundamentally altered his own philosophical approach to psychoanalysis.Roudinesco launches a passionate defense of Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, and Derrida against the "new philosophers" of the late 1970s and 1980s, who denounced the work-and sometimes the private lives-of this great generation. In Freudian theory and the philosophy of radical commitment, she sees a bulwark against the kind of manipulative, pill-prescribing, and normalizing psychology that aims to turn individuals into mindless consumers. Roudinesco knew many of these intellectuals personally, and she weaves an account of their thought through lived experience and reminiscences.
She is the author of a number of critically acclaimed works, including Columbia University Press's Jacques Lacan and Why Psychoanalysis?William McCuaig is most recently the translator of Gianni Vattimo's The Vocation and Responsibility of the Philosopher.. Elisabeth Roudinesco is director of research at the University of Paris and director of studies
Beautifully written and translated. (Choice)
In Praise of Freud's French Readers Etienne RP Elisabeth Roudinesco is the self-proclaimed guardian of the psychoanalytic temple in France. She patrols the Freudian field, and falls down on any intruder who trespasses without authorization. She uses anathema to disparage those who cast a doubt on the therapeutic effects of psychoanalysis, or point toward the inconsistencies of some of Freud's interpreters. Attempts to submit psychiatric treatment to the rigorous tests of scientific evaluation are dismissed as a ploy waved by big pha