French Philosophy Today : : New Figures of the Human in Badiou, Meillassoux, Malabou, Serres and Latour / / Christopher Watkin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Watkin, Christopher,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; 1 Alain Badiou: Formalised Inhumanism --; 2 Quentin Meillassoux: Supreme Human Value Meets Antianthropocentrism --; 3 Catherine Malabou: The Plastic Human --; 4 Catherine Malabou: The Epigenetic Human --; 5 Michel Serres: Universal Humanism --; 6 Bruno Latour: Translating the Human --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Select Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474414746; 9783110780444
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474414746?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Christopher Watkin.

A comparative critique of the human in Alain Badiou, Quentin Meillassoux, Catherine Malabou, Michel Serres and Bruno LatourContemporary French philosophy is laying fresh claim to the human. Through a series of independent, simultaneous initiatives, arising in the writing of diverse current French thinkers, the figure of the human is being transformed and reworked. Christopher Watkin draws out both the promises and perils inherent in these attempts to rethink humanity's relation to 'nature' and 'culture', to the objects that surround us, to the possibility of social and political change, to ecology and even to our own brains. This comparative assessment makes visible for the first time one of the most important trends in French thought today.