TY - BOOK ID - 78142231 TI - Thinking the Impossible : French Philosophy Since 1960 PY - 2011 SN - 0191668524 9780191668524 9780199674671 0199674671 0191057452 9780199227037 PB - Oxford : OUP Oxford, DB - UniCat KW - Philosophers -- France. KW - Philosophy, French -- 19th century. KW - Philosophy, French -- 20th century. KW - Philosophy. KW - Philosophy & Religion KW - Philosophy KW - History of philosophy KW - anno 1900-1999 KW - France UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78142231 AB - The late 20th century saw a remarkable flourishing of philosophy in France. The work of French philosophers is wide ranging, historically informed, often reaching out beyond the boundaries of philosophy; they are public intellectuals, taken seriously as contributors to debates outside the academy. Gary Gutting tells the story of the development of a distinctively French philosophy in the last four decades of the 20th century. His aim is to arrive at an account of what it was to 'dophilosophy' in France, what this sort of philosophizing was able to achieve, and how it differs from the analytic ER -