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A N G E L A K I journal of the theoretical humanities volume 8 number 2 august 2003 I Among the themes that tend to dominate general discussion of recent French philos- ophy, four seem to recur with particular frequency. Complexity: the field retains a linger- ing reputation for daunting if not arcane diffi- EDITORIAL culty and sophistication, which restricts access to initiated insiders only. Subversion: recent INTRODUCTION French philosophy is supposed to have broken with the sterile certainties of metaphysics, to have exploded the benign intimacy of the subject, shattered the stability of reflection, peter hallward undermined every figure of the absolute or immediate. Eclecticism: in place of traditional concerns with being and truth, French philoso- THE ONE OR THE phers are supposed to have drawn their inspira- OTHER tion from the sciences and humanities, from psychoanalysis, from anthropology, from french philosophy today1 linguistics, from the artistic avant-garde, and more recently from liberalism, analytical philos- ophy, and so on. Exhaustion: over the last themes and you‘ve got a discipline in retreat, a twenty years, in particular, our philosophers are despondent branch of learning defeated by its supposed to have stepped back from the more unsustainable ambition and subsequently radical implications of their most subversive rearranged by needs external to its own, needs declarations – the end of philosophy, the death borrowed or imposed by government, pedagogy, of man, the dissolution of the subject – to accept sci