French philosophy
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French philosophy, here taken to mean philosophy in French language, has been extremely diverse and influential to both the analytic and continental traditions in philosophy for centuries, from René Descartes through Voltaire and Henri Bergson to 20th century Existentialism and Post-structuralism.
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17th century
The modern period is usually taken to start with the seventeenth century and more specifically, with the work of René Descartes, who set much of the agenda as well as much of the methodology for those who came after him. Much of this started in Paris.
18th century
Prominent Enlightenment philosophers such as Voltaire, Denis Diderot and Jean-Jacques Rousseau questioned and attacked the existing institutions of both Church and State.
19th century
French philosophy of the 19th century was imbued with philosophers of the 18th century, such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
20th century
Twentieth-century French philosophy, also called French Theory is a strand of contemporary philosophy associated with post-World War 2 French thinkers, who were directly influenced by German philosophy. French philosophy is very much 'French' in nature, influenced by a group of particular thinkers in that nation, reflecting the French zeitgeist. However, the questions raised by the movement were often extremely fundamental ones, and so ethnocentrism cannot be said to be deeply significant. Twentieth-century French philosophy and the work of Georges Bataille, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze and Roland Barthes has been influential in the Anglosphere, especially with regards to the art world.
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