Well, one of the things that you learn from studying philosophy is to make sure you have a question straight before starting to answer it. As it stands, this is an empirical question about students’ motivations – to answer it you’d have to put it to a sample of philosophy students and see what their responses are. I would predict a whole range of . .

Well, one of the things that you learn from studying philosophy is to make sure you have a question straight before starting to answer it. I would predict a whole range of answers: ‘it sounded like I’d spend a lot of time with my hand under my chin thinking and looking deep, without needing to do much work’; ‘my boy/girlfriend chose philosophy and I wanted to be with him/her’; who knows? There is a wide range of fundamental questions about the universe and the role of humans in it that seem unavoidable for the reflective person. What is really being asked, I suppose, is ‘what (good) reasons are there for studying philosophy? ’. This is a normative, rather than empirical question.

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In Thinking through French Philosophy, Leonard Lawlor shows how . Two systems of thought still determine what we think, especially as Continental philosophers. What connects the two systems is the question of thinking.

In Thinking through French Philosophy, Leonard Lawlor shows how the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty formed an important current in sustaining the development of structuralism and post-structuralism.

Leonard "Len" Lawlor (/ˈlɔːlər/; born November 2, 1954) is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. Lawlor received his doctorate from SUNY Stony Brook in 1988 and taught at the University of Memphis from 1989–2008, where he held the position of Faudree-Hardin University Professor of Philosophy from 2004 to 2008 before joining the faculty at Penn State, as Sparks Professor of Philosophy

In Thinking through French ﾷＮｾｰｯｳｬｩｨｐ The Being of theQuestionJ Leonard Lawlor brings together the philosophies of three of the most important thinkers of 1960s France, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and GiIles Deleuze.

In Thinking through French ﾷＮｾｰｯｳｬｩｨｐ The Being of theQuestionJ Leonard Lawlor brings together the philosophies of three of the most important thinkers of 1960s France, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and GiIles Deleuze. The book relates these thinkers to each other and to their predeeessors in the French and German contexts (Merleau-Ponty, Hyppolite, Husserl, and Heidegger) in ways that are not only novel but designed to open up new avenues oE thinking. The book is composed oE an introduction, eight essays, and a conclusion, as weIl as two appendiees.

Leonard Lawlor is Sparks Professor of Philosophy at the Pennsylvania State University

Leonard Lawlor is Sparks Professor of Philosophy at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Derrida and Dusserl: The Basic Problem of Phenomenology; Thinking through French Philosophy: The Being of the Question; The Challenge of Bergsonism: Phenomenology, Ontology, Ethics; and Imagination and Chance: The Difference between the Thought of Ricoeur and Derrida.

In Thinking through French Philosophy, Leonard Lawlor shows how the work . no other book undertakes to relate all these French philosophers to each . Lawlor’s focus on the experience of the question brings out critical differences in immanence and transcendence.

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In Thinking through French Philosophy, Leonard Lawlor shows how the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty formed . Lawlor's focus on the experience of the question brings out critical differences in immanence and transcendence

In Thinking through French Philosophy, Leonard Lawlor shows how the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty formed an important current in sustaining the development of structuralism and post-structuralism. Lawlor's focus on the experience of the question brings out critical differences in immanence and transcendence. This illuminating and provocative book brings new vitality to debates on contemporary French philosophy.

Thinking through French Philosophy: The Being of the Question. no other book undertakes to relate all these French philosophers to each other the way that does, brilliantly. In Thinking through French Philosophy, Leonard Lawlor shows how the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty formed an important current in sustaining the development of structuralism and post-structuralism.