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Post-Rationalism: Psychoanalysis, Epistemology, and Marxism in Post-War France: Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy

Autor Dr Tom Eyers
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 dec 2014
Post-Rationalism takes the experimental journal of psychoanalysis and philosophy, Cahiers pour l'Analyse, as its main source. Established by students of Louis Althusser in 1966, the journal has rarely figured in the literature, although it contained the first published work of authors now famous in contemporary critical thought, including Alain Badiou, Jean-Claude Milner, Luce Irigaray, André Green and Jacques-Alain Miller. The Cahiers served as a testing ground for the combination of diverse intellectual sources indicative of the period, including the influential reinvention of Freud and Marx undertaken by Lacan and Althusser, and the earlier post-rationalist philosophy of science pioneered by Gaston Bachelard, Georges Canguilhem and Alexandre Koyré.This book is a wide-ranging analysis of the intellectual foundations of structuralism, re-connecting the work of young post-Lacanian and post-Althusserian theorists with their predecessors in French philosophy of science. Tom Eyers provides an important corrective to standard histories of the period, focussing on the ways in which French epistemological writing of the 1930s and 1940s - especially that of Bachelard and Canguilhem - laid the ground for the emergence of structuralism in the 1950s and 1960s, thus questioning the standard historical narrative that posits structuralism as emerging chiefly in reaction to phenomenology and existentialism.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781474213011
ISBN-10: 1474213014
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Engages closely with the little-discussed innovative experimental journal of psychoanalysis and philosophy, Cahiers pour l'Analyse.

Notă biografică

Tom Eyers is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University. He is the author of Lacan and the Concept of the Real (2012).

Cuprins

Acknowledgements \ Introduction \ 1. Psychoanalytic Structuralism in the Cahiers pour l'Analyse \ 2. Bachelard, Lacan and the Impurity of Formalization \ 3. Science, 'Suture' and the Signifier \ 4. Discourse and Ideology in Post-Rationalism: Althusser, Badiou, Lacan, Milner \ 5. Canguilhem, Deleuze and the Problem of Life \ Conclusion \ Bibliography \ Index

Recenzii

Eyers's rubric of 'post-rationalism' clears the ground for a new, more nuanced conception of structuralist thought - a structuralism rigorously observant of the cross-currents between such ostensible oppositions as subject and structure, concept and object... Eyers has restored, with remarkable clarity and comprehensiveness, the crucial details of a bigger picture - one whose continuing reconstruction will further accentuate its political resonance, past and present.
In its range of material and its interpretative daring, Eyers's book is one of an ambition rarely seen today. As focus inevitably turns towards more contemporary trends, it will surely prove to be a singular resource and a potent rejoinder to those stressing the novelty of a 'scientific turn' in recent French thought.
In this exceptionally clear and well-argued book, Eyers shows us forgotten roots of French structuralism in the earlier rationalism of Bachelard, Canguilhem and Althusser. He thereby gives us new and important insights into the works of Lacan, Badiou and their circles.
This is an outstanding study of an exciting and much-neglected period in postwar French philosophy, and Eyers successfully puts to rest many false presuppositions about the nature of continental philosophy itself.
This is an illuminating reconstruction of an influential but long-neglected moment in contemporary philosophy. Tom Eyers draws on his expert knowledge of French psychoanalysis and philosophy to propose a valuable new characterisation of structuralist epistemology in general, and of essential works by and around Althusser and Lacan in particular.
In its many readings and appropriations the incredibly productive current of French Post-War theory has been often watered down and its edges blunted beyond recognition. Tom Eyers' book cuts straight to the core of the ground-breaking issues that animated it at the outset. With an admirable, almost surgical precision, Eyers is able to render us the surprisingly vivid elements that formed and informed that tradition. Far from a simple historical study, the result is an amazing work packed with stunning relevance for the most burning discussions that are taking place today in philosophy and critical theory.
The flash appearance of Cahiers pour l'Analyse, a journal published by a group of students at the École normale supérieure in 1966-69, inspired by Althusser, Lacan and the epistemological tradition of Canguilhem and Bachelard, marks one of the great starry moments of the twentieth century thought. Tom Eyers' book brings it to life with verve, erudition and engagement, tracing both the genealogy of this explosive laboratory of concepts and its aftermath stretching to the most pressing issues of the present moment of theory. An indispensible book mapping out an indispensible trajectory.
Tom Eyers has written an important book and that Bloomsbury has seen fit to republish it in an affordable and elegant paperback edition is validation of its central intuition: that the conceptual tensions forged in 1960s France at the intersection of psychoanalysis, epistemology, and Marxism are no less pertinent to critical theoretical work in the humanities today than when they were first formulated. The book is a decisive intervention, and something of a promissory note.It also foretells the significance of Tom Eyers's future contributions to this set of perennial concerns.