Preface.
Chronology.
Part I.
1. The Early Decades.
2. Phenomenology on the Way to Existentialism.
3. Existentialism and its Other.
4. Structuralism and the Challenge to Philosophy.
5. After Structuralism.
6. Conclusion.
Part II.
Key Biographies in Brief.
Appendix 1: Understanding French Academic Culture.
Appendix 2: Bibliography of French Philosophy in English Translation.
Works Cited and Consulted.
Index.
Alan D. Schrift is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Grinnell College Center for the Humanities. He is the author of Nietzsche and the Question of Interpretation: Between Hermeneutics and Deconstruction (1990), Nietzsche's French Legacy: A Genealogy of Poststructuralism (1995), Modernity and the Problem of Evil (2005), and the editor of six collections of essays, including The Logic of Gift: Toward an Ethic of Generosity (1997).
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