French Hegel: From Surrealism to Postmodernism

by Baugh,Bruce

• ISBN13: 9780415965873
• ISBN10: 041596587X
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-03-07
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This highly original history of ideas considers the impact of Hegel on French philosophy from the 1920s to the present. As Baugh's lucid narrative makes clear, Hegel's influence on French philosophy has been profound, and can be traced through all the major intellectual movements and thinkers in France throughout the 20th Century from Jean Wahl, Sartre, and Bataille to Foucault, Deleuze, and Derrida. Baugh focuses on Hegel's idea of the "unhappy consciousness," and provides a bold new account of Hegel's early reception in French intellectual history.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction: French Hegel and the Unhappy Consciousness	1	(8)
The Anthropological Turn	9	(10)
Pan-Tragicism	19	(14)
The Existential Protest: Wahl and Fondane	33	(20)
The Uses of Negativity: Breton and Lefebvre	53	(18)
Bataille: Negativity Unemployed	71	(22)
The Unhappy Consciousness in Sartre's Philosophy	93	(26)
The Persistence of the Unhappy Consciousness: Derrida	119	(28)
Beyond Hegel? Deleuze, Foucault, and the New Empiricism	147	(28)
Conclusion: The Career of the Unhappy Consciousness in France	175	(4)
Notes	179	(38)
Selected Bibliography	217	(18)
Index	235