{"product_id":"post-rationalism-tom-eyers-9781474213011","title":"Post-Rationalism: Psychoanalysis, Epistemology, and Marxism in Post-War France","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePost-Rationalism\u003c\/i\u003e takes the experimental journal of psychoanalysis and philosophy, \u003ci\u003eCahiers pour l'Analyse\u003c\/i\u003e, as its main source. Established by students of Louis Althusser in 1966, the journal has rarely figured in the literature, although it contained the first published work of authors now famous in contemporary critical thought, including Alain Badiou, Jean-Claude Milner, Luce Irigaray, André Green and Jacques-Alain Miller. The \u003ci\u003eCahiers\u003c\/i\u003e served as a testing ground for the combination of diverse intellectual sources indicative of the period, including the influential reinvention of Freud and Marx undertaken by Lacan and Althusser, and the earlier post-rationalist philosophy of science pioneered by Gaston Bachelard, Georges Canguilhem and Alexandre Koyré. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book is a wide-ranging analysis of the intellectual foundations of structuralism, re-connecting the work of young post-Lacanian and post-Althusserian theorists with their predecessors in French philosophy of science. Tom Eyers provides an important corrective to standard histories of the period, focussing on the ways in which French epistemological writing of the 1930s and 1940s - especially that of Bachelard and Canguilhem - laid the ground for the emergence of structuralism in the 1950s and 1960s, thus questioning the standard historical narrative that posits structuralism as emerging chiefly in reaction to phenomenology and existentialism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tom Eyers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474213014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474213011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/12\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d","brand":"Tom Eyers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47637231632639,"sku":"9781474213011","price":47.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ecac7ba7-fb5b-441a-a6e1-da7c84100c40.jpg?v=1765114825","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/post-rationalism-tom-eyers-9781474213011","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}