Introduction: Anthropology or Metaphysics? Another History of 20th Century French Philosophy, by Elodie Boublil

Part I: Elucidating Desire: Embodiment and Reflexivity

Chapter 1: The Lived Body: From Maine de Biran to French Phenomenology, by Paula Lorelle

Chapter 2: Jean Nabert: A Hidden Source of French Phenomenology? by Scott Davidson

Chapter 3: The Source of Desire: Individuation and Responsive Care in Jean-Louis Chrétien's Philosophy, by Elodie Boublil

Part II: Desire, Drives, and Imagination

Chapter 4: Seize Hold of the Hunger: Simone Weil's Ethical Eros, by A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone

Chapter 5: Sarah Kofman: Irony and Self-Writing as Philosophical Practice, by Melissa Theriault

Chapter 6: Henri Maldiney's Philosophy of Existence, by Till Grohmann

Chapter 7: Rhythm and Subjectivity in Maldiney and Deleuze, by Stefan Kristensen

Part III: Desire, Cosmology, and Metaphysics

Chapter 8: The Reversibility of the Flesh: Jacques Garelli and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, by Renaud Barbaras (Translated by Elodie Boublil)

Chapter 9: Phenomenological Metaphysics in Marc Richir, by Alexander Schnell.

Chapter 10: Nature as Potentiality of the World, by Delia Popa.

Elodie Boublil is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Paris XII (UPEC).

This collection renews contemporary debates in phenomenology, ethics, social ontology, aesthetics, and metaphysics and broadens the scope of twentieth-century French philosophy by analyzing the works and key concepts of authors who left their marks on its genesis.