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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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The return of phenomenology in recent French moral philosophy

Natalie Depraz

pp. 517-532

Abstract

Gabriel Marcel, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Paul Ricoeur were the main figures in French moral philosophy during the 1950s and 1960s, and other chapters of this handbook deal with their contributions to moral philosophy. But what has happened in French moral philosophy since then? In answering this question, I will proceed in two main steps: first, I will sketch in broad strokes the perspectives recently laid out in French moral philosophy; second, I will comment upon the current re-emergence of phenomenology in this field, a re-emergence that began late in the 1970s with Emmanuel Levinas—on whom there is also a chapter in this handbook— and that is now embodied mainly by Michel Henry.

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Published in:

Drummond John, Embree Lester (2002) Phenomenological approaches to moral philosophy: a handbook. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 517-532

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-9924-5_26

Full citation:

Depraz Natalie (2002) The return of phenomenology in recent French moral philosophy, In: Phenomenological approaches to moral philosophy, Dordrecht, Springer, 517–532.