Abstract
ANGELAKI journal of the theoretical humanities volume 23 number 2 april 2018 oday, we are frequently told that many T things are “problematic,” a term that has metonymically come to function at the limit as a simple pejorative. Here, we have convened a virtual collection of eminent scholars of French philosophy – overlapping with a con- crete workshop of scholars convened at Deakin University in Melbourne in December 2015 on the same topic – to discuss the...
ANGELAKI journal of the theoretical humanities volume 23 number 2 april 2018 oday, we are frequently told that many T things are “problematic,” a term that has metonymically come to function at the limit as a simple pejorative. Here, we have convened a virtual collection of eminent scholars of French philosophy – overlapping with a con- crete workshop of scholars convened at Deakin University in Melbourne in December 2015 on the same topic – to discuss the philosophical EDITORIAL stakes of the notion of the “problem” as such, INTRODUCTION through the undertaking of the archaeology of twentieth-century French philosophy. This special issue is thus dedicated to the sean bowden operation of the concept of the problem, and its derivatives, in French philosophy during mark g.e. kelly the twentieth century. Trying simultaneously to maintain focus on a single topic within a single geographical locus and a single time PROBLEMATIZING period has proved difficult, since none of these things exist in isolation. Inevitably, figures PROBLEMS from outside France have become major interlo- cutors in some instances (which is unavoidable in so far as French philosophy in the twentieth methods of problematization, in twentieth- century has been more influenced by German century
Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities – Taylor & Francis
Published: Mar 4, 2018
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