French Interpretations of Heidegger

David Pettigrew And François Raffoul - Editors

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French Interpretations of Heidegger undertakes a philosophical engagement with the work of the most significant and creative figures involved in the reception of Heidegger in France. The essays address those thinkers who have been influenced by Heidegger's thought and have interpreted it in remarkable ways, including Levinas, Beaufret, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe, Irigaray, Zarader, Greisch, and Dastur. The volume explores the extraordinary impact that Heidegger's thought has had on contemporary French philosophy, including such movements as existentialism, deconstruction, feminist theory, post-structuralism, and hermeneutics, and illustrates its impact on the American continental scene as well.
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Introduction: David Pettigrew and François Raffoul

1. Toward the End of the “French Exception”?
Dominique Janicaud

2. Levinas’s Heideggerian Fantasm
Reginald Lilly

3. The Thoughtful Dialogue Between Martin Heidegger and Jean Beaufret: A New Way of Doing Philosophy
Pierre Jacerme

4. Postscripts to the “Letter on ‘Humanism’”: Heidegger, Sartre, and Being-Human
Dennis Skocz

5. Merleau-Ponty’s 1959 Heidegger Lectures: The Task of Thinking and the Possibility of Philosophy Today
Wayne Froman

6. Self-Fashioning as a Response to the Crisis of “Ethics”: A Foucault/Heidegger Auseinandersetzung
Alan Milchman and Alan Rosenberg

7. Contamination, Essence, and Decomposition: Heidegger and Derrida
Andrew Mitchell

8. Between Deleuze and Heidegger There Never Is Any Difference
Jonathan Dronsfield

9. On a Divine Wink
Jean-Luc Nancy

10. Sticking Heidegger with a Stela: Lacoue-Labarthe, Art and Politics
Gregory Schufreider

11. Dwelling with Language: Irigaray Responds
Helen A. Fielding

12. Forgiving “La Dette Impensée”: Being Jewish and Reading Heidegger
Allen Scult

13. The Poverty of Heidegger’s “Last God”
Jean Greisch

14. The Reception and Nonreception of Heidegger in France
Françoise Dastur

List of Contributors
Index

Sujets

• Philosophie
• Épistémologie
• Philosophie de l'esprit
• Philosophy
• Epistémologie
• Epistémologie
• Epistémologie

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 22 septembre 2008
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780791477861
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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FRENCH INTERPRETATIONS

OF HEIDEGGER

SUNY series in Contemporary French Thought

David Pettigrew and François Raffoul, editors

FRENCH INTERPRETATIONS OF HEIDEGGER

An Exceptional Reception

Edited by D avid P ettigre w and f rançois R affoul

S t at e U o fn i v e r s i t y N e w Y o r k P r e s s

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French interpretations of Heidegger : an exceptional reception / edited by David Pettigrew and François Raffoul. p. cm. — (SUNY series in contemporary French thought) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 9780791475591 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Heidegger, Martin, 1889–1976. 2. Philosophy, French. I. Pettigrew, David, 1951– II. Raffoul, François, 1960–

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Contents

Introduction David Pettigrew and François Raffoul

One Toward the End of the “French Exception”? Dominique Janicaud

Two Levinas’s Heideggerian Fantasm Reginald Lilly

Three The Thoughtful Dialogue Between Martin Heidegger and Jean Beaufret: A New Way of Doing Philosophy Pierre Jacerme

Four Postscripts to the “Letter on ‘Humanism’”: Heidegger, Sartre, and BeingHuman Dennis Skocz

Five MerleauPonty’s 1959 Heidegger Lectures: The Task of Thinking and the Possibility of Philosophy Today Wayne Froman

Six SelfFashioning as a Response to the Crisis of “Ethics”: A Foucault/HeideggerA USEINANDERSETZUNG Alan Milchman and Alan Rosenberg

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Seven Contamination, Essence, and Decomposition: Heidegger and Derrida Andrew Mitchell

Eight Between Deleuze and Heidegger There Never Is Any Difference Jonathan Dronsfield

Nine On a DivineW INK Jean-Luc Nancy

Ten Sticking Heidegger with a Stela: LacoueLabarthe, Art and Politics Gregory Schufreider

Eleven Dwelling with Language: Irigaray Responds Helen A. Fielding

Twelve Forgiving “L A D ETTE I MPENSÉE ”: Being Jewish and Reading Heidegger Allen Scult

Thirteen The Poverty of Heidegger’s “Last God” Jean Greisch

Fourteen The Reception and Nonreception of Heidegger in France Françoise Dastur

List of Contributors

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Jane Bunker, editor-in-chief at SUNY Press, for her support of this project from its earliest stages. Our deepest gratitude to Mme Nicole Janicaud for her encouragement and for her permission to include Professor Dominique Janicaud’s lecture, “Toward the End of the ‘French Exception’?,” presented at the 2002 meeting of the North American Heidegger Conference at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven. This volume is dedicated to his memory. We would also like to recognize our colleagues from the North American Heidegger Conference for their contributions to this volume. At Louisiana State University, we would like to express our gratitude to the staff of the philosophy department, Jen O’Connor and Margaret Toups, for their help throughout. Our appreciation also goes to Troy Mellon, John Castore, and James Ryan for their assistance with the editorial preparation of Françoise Das- tur’s chapter. We would like to express our great appreciation for the support provided by a Connecticut State University Research Grant, and for the research-reassigned time provided by DonnaJean Fredeen, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences of Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU).We also thank Provost Selase Williams and former Associate Academic Vice President Ellen Beatty at SCSU for their encouragement and support of the project. We are indeed grateful to Armen Marsoobian, Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at SCSU and to Ms. Sheila Magnotti, Department Secretary, for all their support. Our thanks to John Dudley, of the Philosophy Department at Southern Con- necticut State University, for editing Dominique Janicaud’s essay for presentation at the Heidegger Conference, and to Dr. Cathy Leblanc, teaching and research assistant at the University of Arras (France), who provided valuable assistance for the translation of Françoise Dastur’s chapter. Special thanks to Jedidiah Mohring, of the Philosophy Department at SCSU, for his careful review of the final pages. Finally, our heartfelt gratitude goes to Mélida Badilla Carmona for her steadfast support.

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