French Philosophy Since 1945

Problems, Concepts, Inventions, Postwar French Thought, Volume IV

Edited by Etienne Balibar and John Rajchman

Ramona Naddaff, Series Editor

hardcover

$40.00

After World War II, philosophy in France entered a rich period whose influence is still strong today. New styles were invented, new problems were formulated, and new critical functions were engaged, reaching into many domains around the world.

French Philosophy Since 1945, the final volume in the four-volume New Press Postwar French Thought series, provides a fresh map and analysis for understanding this singular period in the history of ideas. Organized around a series of interconnected questions, featuring many different and sometimes opposed voices, French Philosophy Since 1945 brings together the writings of both celebrated and unknown French philosophers for the first time.

With new translations by Arthur Goldhammer, the material is contextualized within a larger intellectual and political history and chronology. Indispensable for understanding the development of postwar French philosophy as a whole, this anthology also includes a comprehensive chronology.

Etienne Balibar, Distinguished Professor at University of California, Irvine, is one of Europe’s leading political philosophers. The author of Masses, Classes, and Ideas, he is based in Paris. John Rajchman is an associate professor at Columbia University and the author of The Deleuze Connections. Anne Boyman is a senior lecturer in the French department at Barnard College and the author of Lecture du Narcisse. Rajchman and Boyman both live in New York. Ramona Naddaff, founding editor of Zone Books, is an associate professor of rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. She lives in California. Arthur Goldhammer, an award-winning translator, lives in Massachusetts.