Modern French Philosophy by Robert Wicks

A concise, historically grounded survey of key developments in French thought from the late nineteenth century through the twentieth century, tracing shifts from Bergsonian intuition and existentialist concerns with freedom and authenticity to phenomenology, structuralism, and post-structural critiques of language, subjectivity, and power. The book examines representative figures and movements—situating thinkers in their intellectual and political contexts—and highlights how debates over method, history, and social critique reshaped philosophical questions about consciousness, ethics, and society.

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