Style wars pt 1: Postwar France and a new philosophical mode

EPISODE · Apr 9, 2025 · 33 MIN

Style wars pt 1: Postwar France and a new philosophical mode

from Philosopher's Zone · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

In the aftermath of the Second World War, France was in a state of creative ferment that affected politics, culture - and philosophy. A new mode of philosophical writing emerged in the form of the review, and it was being done in an idiom that we've since come to recognise as typical of modern French theory: dense, experimental, multivocal, open-ended, very much the opposite of traditional analytic philosophical style. It grabbed scholarly attention then, and is still controversial today.

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