Intermittency: The Concept of Historical Reason in Recent French Philosophy

Andrew Gibson

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January, 2012
Cloth, 320 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-7486-3757-7
Edinburgh University Press
$105.00

Ths book explores the concept of historical intermittency in the work of five French philosophers.

By critiquing the work of Alain Badiou, Françoise Proust, Christian Jambet, Guy Lardreau and Jacques Rancière - and drawing on a wealth of philosophy, literature, history and art - Andrew Gibson develops a new theory of historical time. In different ways, these philosophers all work with a concept of the historical "event" as an extraordinary occurrence which shatters established historical formations and promises new historical beginnings.

Related Subjects

• Continental/Feminist Philosophy
• Philosophy

About the Author

Andrew Gibson is research professor of modern literature and theory at Royal Holloway, University of London.

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