Les institutions du sens

by Vincent Descombes

349 pp., bibliogr. Parfait état. Edition originale.

Genres: Philosophy

352 pages, Paperback

First published March 12, 1996

About the author

Vincent Descombes is a French philosopher. His major work has been in the philosophy of language and philosophy of mind. He is particularly noted for a lengthy critique in two volumes of the project he calls cognitivism, and which is, roughly, the view current in philosophy of mind that mental and psychological facts can ultimately be treated as, or reduced to, physical facts about the brain.

Descombes has also written an introduction to modern French philosophy (Le même et l'autre) focused on the transition, after 1960, from a focus on the three H's, Hegel, Husserl and Heidegger to the "three masters of suspicion", Marx, Nietzsche and Freud.

Vincent Descombes teaches at the Centre de recherches politiques Raymond Aron, part of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. He holds an appointment in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Vincent Descombes was also a member of the French Marxist group Socialisme ou Barbarie.

Reviews

[Gary D. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Even if you don't even want to know what anthropological holism is, you may still want to read the discussion of intentionality that the book opens with.

[Mills College Library]

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