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- Title
3Continental Philosophy.
- Authors
Constantinou, Marios; Margaroni, Maria
- Abstract
This chapter focuses on books published in the field of Continental Philosophy in 2008 and is divided into two sections: 1. ‘Il loro medio’: The Continuing Challenge of Continental Thought. In this section Maria Margaroni picks up a recurring thread in the fabric of continental philosophy (i.e. the co-implication of poetry and thought) in order to illuminate the aims, stakes and overall contribution of two studies focusing on different generations of continental thinkers: namely, François Cusset’s historical account of the American adventures of the French avant-gardes and Justin Clemens, Nicholas Heron and Alex Murray’s edited collection on the work of Giorgio Agamben, one of the most influential continental philosophers working in the wake of the French avant-garde generation. 2. Alain Badiou’s Militant Ethics of Thought: A Republican Cure to the Eclectic Sophistry of the Left. This section, written by Marios Constantinou, reviews critically two recent publications by Alain Badiou (Conditions and The Meaning of Sarkozy) and suggests a new reading perspective which (a) draws the implications of coupling Lacan with Plato on the neo-Epicurean frontier of materialist thought and (b) foregrounds the subjective form of a republican communism with universalist intent as an antidote to the Pétainism of the Left and Right.
- Publication
Year's Work in Critical & Cultural Theory, 2010, Vol 18, Issue 1, p53
- ISSN
1077-4254
- Publication type
Article