Transformation in Contemporary French Philosophy

Ingala, Emma (EDT)/ Ó Fathaigh, Cillian (EDT)/ Rae, Gavin (EDT)

Edinburgh University Press（2026/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 336 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781399540919

Full Description

This collection brings together an international range of specialists to explore the multi-faceted ways in which twentieth-century French philosophy affirms the fundamental importance of transformation. The essays enhance our understanding of how various individual French philosophers have conceived the term, including the innovative implications of their respective conceptions. They show that although emphasis is often placed on its heterogeneity and the differences between its proponents, twentieth-century French philosophy is fundamentally, if implicitly, shaped around a common focus on the primordial importance of transformation.
By engaging with the thinking of Bergson, Sartre, Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty, Fanon, Deleuze, Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva, Ricœur, Ruyer, Simondon, Serres, Castoriadis and Malabou, the contributors also rethink a range of issues, including ethics, information, ontology and politics.

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Problem of Transformation
Emma Ingala, Cillian Ó Fathaigh, and Gavin Rae

PART I: METAPHYSICS, PHENOMENOLOGY, AND POSTCOLONIAL THEORY
1. Bergson and the Nature of Change: Adventures Across the Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Science of Transformation
Craig Lundy
2. Transformation of the Self in Sartre: Imaginary and History
Marieke Mueller
3. Simone de Beauvoir: On Transformation through Ambiguity
Sara Cohen Shabot
4. Merleau-Ponty and Historical Transformation: The Dialectics of Situation and Action
Jérôme Melançon
5. Beyond Violence: Milieu and Social Transformation in Fanon's Psychiatric Writings
Cillian Ó Fathaigh

PART II: EVENT, AGENCY, AND DIFFERENCE
6. "The Great Pyramid is an Event": Thinking Creativity and Transformation with Deleuze and Whitehead
Hannah Richter
7. Foucault's Account of the Will: Making Sense of Historical Transformations
Tuomo Tiisala
8. The Transformative Power of Derrida's Différance
Nicole J. Anderson
9. Transforming the Sound of Revolt: Kristeva, Moten, and Phonic Materiality
Sid Hansen

PART III: NARRATION, INFORMATION, AND ONTOLOGY
10. The Transformative Potential of Ricoeur's Narrative Self
Katrina Mitcheson
11. Information as Transformation: Ruyer, Simondon, Serres
Ashley Woodward
12. From Magma to Plasticity: Transformation in Castoriadis and Malabou
Gavin Rae

Notes on Contributors
Index