Peter Osborne (ed.) Futurethoughts: Critical Histories of Philosophy – CRMEP, 2024

Available open access, this includes new translations of Foucault – parts of his 1950s course on anthropology and his tribute to Jean Hyppolite.

Contributors: Isabelle Alfandary, Éric Alliez, Anna Argirò, Howard Caygill, Michel Foucault, Daniel Gottlieb, Louis Hartnoll. Orazio Irrera, Eric Prenowitz, Morteza Samanpour, Stella Sandford, Naomi Waltham-Smith, Simon Wortham

Post-Kantian European philosophy has always involved a process of reflection upon and contestation of its own problematic status as an independent discipline. The constant setting and the overstepping of boundaries – conceptual and institutional – are the hallmark of its development. The writings in this volume – organized according to the institutional genres of the presentations within CRMEP from which they derive – revisit some of these encounters of phil­osophy with anthropology, economy, sociology and psycho­analysis, respectively, in both the French and German traditions. Increasingly, thinkers such as Foucault and Derrida – the bookends of this collection – appear as singular figures only within the broader, densely imbricated contexts from which they depart. Still figures of the future, constituting our philosophical present with new pasts.

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