Heidegger in France [Hardcover]

Dominique Janicaud claimed that every French intellectual movementfrom existentialism to psychoanalysiswas influenced by Martin Heidegger. This translation of Janicauds landmark work, Heidegger en France, details Heideggers reception in philosophy and other humanistic and social science disciplines. Interviews with key French thinkers such as Fran?oise Dastur, Jacques Derrida, ?liane Escoubas, Jean Greisch, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Jean-Luc Marion, and Jean-Luc Nancy are included and provide further reflection on Heideggers relationship to French philosophy. An intellectual undertaking of authoritative scope, this work furnishes a thorough history of the French reception of Heideggers thought.

Dominique Janicaud (19372002) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nice-Sophia-Antipolis and the author of many books including Powers of the Rational (IUP, 1994), Phenomenology and the Theological Turn, and Phenomenology Wide Open. Heidegger en France, the crowning achievement of his philosophical work, was published in French in 2001.

Fran?ois Raffoul is Professor of Philosophy at Louisiana State University. He is author of The Origins of Responsibility (IUP, 2010).

David Pettigrew is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University. He is editor (with Fran?ois Raffoul) of French Interpretations of Heidegger.

Janicaud shows himself to be a charming writer, and the English translation admirably conveys the clarity and deftness of his French prose into English. Indeed, one largely unsung quality of Janicaud's writings, be it this text or his more properly philosophical works, is his prose; combining clarity with wit, he is much more enjoyable to read than many of his contemporaries, and his translators are to be complemented for bringing those elements with them into the English translation.