Modern French Philosophy (Pocket)
avVincent Descombes
ISBN: 9780521296724 - UTGIVEN: 1981-01This is a critical introduction to modern French philosophy, commissioned from one of the liveliest contemporary practitioners and intended for an English-speaking readership. The dominant ?Anglo-Saxon? reaction to philosophical development in France has for some decades been one of suspicion, occas[...]
The Institutions of Meaning (Inbunden)
avVincent Descombes
ISBN: 9780674728783 - UTGIVEN: 2014-03Holism grows out of the philosophical position that an object or phenomenon is more than the sum of its parts. And yet analysis--a mental process crucial to human comprehension--involves breaking something down into its components, dismantling the whole in order to grasp it piecemeal and relationall[...]
The Mind's Provisions: A Critique of Cognitivism (Häftad)
avVincent Descombes
ISBN: 9780691146669 - UTGIVEN: 2010-01Vincent Descombes brings together an astonishingly large body of philosophical and anthropological thought to present a thoroughgoing critique of contemporary cognitivism and to develop a powerful new philosophy of the mind. Beginning with a critical examination of American cognitivism and French s[...]
Wittgenstein Reads Freud (Pocket)
avJacques Bouveresse, Carol (TRN) Cosman, Vincent (FRW) Descombes
ISBN: 9780691029047 - UTGIVEN: 1996-09Did Freud present a scientific hypothesis about the unconscious, as he always maintained and as many of his disciples keep repeating? This question has long prompted debates concerning the legitimacy and usefulness of psychoanalysis, and it is of utmost importance to Lacanian analysts, whose main pr[...]
