Le platonisme

by Vincent Descombes

Après avoir défini le platonisme et son histoire, l'auteur analyse les questions et les distinctions platoniciennes sur la philosophie (l'image et le double, l'énigme, le devenir, le multiple...) pour terminer sur l'argument platonicien : la méthode (dialectique, répétition de l'argument, altérité...).

150 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

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

[Wim Christiaens · Rating 1 out of 5]

Clear and concise introduction to one of the most important subjects in Western culture.