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		Vincent Descombes, in his analysis of Proust's masterpiece, remarks that an artist can be called "modernist" if he fulfills three requirements.
		First of all, Descombes explains that a modernist artist needs to search for a subjective perception of the world; he must be able to "accueillir et traduire une impression individuelle" (Descombes 122) in order to create a work of art.
		Finally, Descombes suggests that a "modernist" work can only be understood by a fragmentation of it: "Marcel apprend qu'une authentique saisie esthétique passe par la mise en relief de la partie aux dépens du tout.
	www.brown.edu /Departments/MCM/people/scholes/CL254/Febles1.html (1345 words)

	The Mind's Provisions: A Critique of Cognitivism (translated by Stephen Adam Schwartz)
		Vincent Descombes brings together an astonishingly large body of philosophical and anthropological thought to present a thoroughgoing critique of contemporary cognitivism and to develop a powerful new philosophy of the mind.
		He identifies as incoherent both the belief that mental states are detached from the world and the idea that states of mind are brain states; these assumptions beg the question of the relation between mind and brain.
		Drawing on Wittgenstein, he maintains that mental acts are properly attributed to the person, not the brain, and that states of mind, far from being detached from the world, require a historical and cultural context for their very intelligibility.
	ecsocman.edu.ru /db/msg/120565.html (1884 words)

	The Mind's Provisions -- A Critique of Cognitivism -- Vincent Descombes Stephan A. Schwartz
		Vincent Descombes is one of the foremost representatives of a strand of contemporary continental philosophy that avoids much of that tradition’s purported “excesses” -- excesses often feverently embraced by its followers abroad.
		Descombes’s primary target is a conception central to theoretical work in the burgeoning field of cognitive science: the notion that the mind (whether conceived materially or immaterially) is essentially isolated from the external and social world and, so, is to be properly understood only in isolation.
		Descombes reveals some surprising similarities between the ways of thinking underlying cognitivism and earlier “structuralism.” He also draws on a wealth of resources, including Wittgenstein, in developing a positive understanding of the human mind that emphasizes the contextual nature of mental states.
	www.frontlist.com /detail/0691001316 (432 words)

	Modern French Philosophy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		But there are signs now of a more sympathetic interest and an increasing readiness to admit and explore shared concerns, even if these are still expressed in a very different idiom and intellectual context.
		Vincent Descombes offers here a personal guide to the main movements and figures of the last forty-five years.
		He traces over this period the evolution of thought from a generation preoccupied with the 'three H's' - Hegel, Husserl and Heidegger, to a generation influenced since about 1960 by the 'three masters of suspicion' - Marx, Nietzsche and Freud.
	www.litencyc.com /php/adpage.php?id=1538 (211 words)

	Amazon.ca: Editorial Reviews Books: Objects of All Sorts: A Philosophical Grammar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Descombes here presents a penetrating criticism of many of the principal movements of contemporary Continental philosophy, taking as its standpoint philosophical grammar.
		By this he means neither the grammar of a particular language nor the general science of linguistics, but rather the presuppositions that underlie particular ways of speaking.
		He pursues it in a highly original way, however, arguing forcefully that structuralism and phenomenology make dubious assumptions about language that reflect their inattention to philosophical grammar.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/books/0801825512/reviews (165 words)

	Vincent Descombes - TheBestLinks.com - Brain, Cognitivism, France, Noam Chomsky, ...
		Vincent Descombes - TheBestLinks.com - Brain, Cognitivism, France, Noam Chomsky,...
		Vincent Descombes, Brain, Cognitivism, France, Noam Chomsky, Philosophy of...
		His major work has been in the philosophy of language and philosophy of mind.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Vincent_Descombes.html (145 words)

	Lingua Romana: Volume 1. Issue 1. Interview with James Faulconer
		S.S.: Vincent Descombes argues in his well-known book, Le même et l’autre, that contemporary French philosophy (by which he means Sartre through the poststructuralists) has been influenced primarily by German philosophers—what he refers to as the three H’s: Husserl, Heidegger and Hegel, although Nietzsche also figures in the mix.
		A student of Heidegger who was repelled by Heidegger’s activities during World War II and also a student of Franz Rosenzweig and the Talmud, Lévinas initiated a new discussion in French philosophy, that of “the other,” and introduced the question of the relation between l’autre and l’autrui.
		Of course, as Vincent Descombes showed some time ago (Le Même et le autre, 1979), in an important way this interest in otherness does not begin with Lévinas.
	linguaromana.byu.edu /faulconer.html (4347 words)

	Social Research Volume 49 No. 2 : Current French Philosophy
		Lacoue- Labarthes' contribution strikes me as particularly significant, taking up as it does the vexed question of Heidegger's brief involvement with the Nazi regime and putting it in the setting of the general relationship between philosophy and politics, while Kofman's brings a similar sensibility to bear on the question of feminism.
		That questions of technical interest to English-speaking philosophers are also alive in France is clear from the contributions in logic and the philosophy of language from Gilles-Gaston Granger and Vincent Descombes.
		And finally Francois George shows that the politics of the left, that old preoccupation of French intellectual life (and an old reproach on the part of many Anglo-American critics of that life), while it has not lost its appeal, has not been allowed to swamp either scholarship or critical independence.
	www.newschool.edu /centers/socres/vol49/issue492.htm (1352 words)

	Specialisation Metaphysics: the same and the other in the contemporary French Philosophy - UvA Studiegids - Cursus ...
		This shift - that also implies a shift from phenomenology to post-structuralism - must be understood against the background of a change in interpretation of Hegelian dialectics of the same and the other.
		We will use Modern French Philosophy (French original : Le même et l'autre) by Vincent Descombes as a textbook.
		Vincent Descombes, Modern French Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980) or French original: Le même et l'autre.
	studiegids.uva.nl /web/sgs/nl/c/5864.html (217 words)

	Philosophy Syllabus
		Our overview will explore the last forty years of French thought as an explicit reaction against existentialism and phenomenology, taking Vincent Descombes' Modern French Philosophy as our guide.
		Vincent Descombes, Modern French Philosophy (Cambridge UP, 1980).
		WEEK 3: Descombes, "The Human Origin of Truth," 55-74.
	www.kzoo.edu /phil/cont98.html (436 words)

	Proust: Philosophy of the Novel by Vincent Descombes, ISBN 0804720002 And The Nabis: Bonnard, Vuillard and Their Circle ...
		Proust: Philosophy of the Novel by Vincent Descombes, ISBN 0804720002 And The Nabis: Bonnard, Vuillard and Their Circle by Claire Freches-Thory, ISBN 2080110764
		Proust: Philosophy of the Novel by Vincent Descombes, ISBN 0804720002
		The book is not only a general interpretationof Proust's novel and its construction; it includes detailed discussions of such topics as literature and philosophy, the nature of literary genres, the poetics of the novel, the definition of art, modernity and postmodernity, and the sociology of literature.
	www.pastaconcerto.com /vincent.htm (498 words)

	Table of Contents for Descombes, V.: The Mind's Provisions: A Critique of Cognitivism.
		Table of Contents for Descombes, V.: The Mind's Provisions: A Critique of Cognitivism.
		What is the place of the mental in the world?
		For its part, mental holism will have to explain how it plans to identify thoughts without individuating them: it will have to provide an identity criterion for thoughts.
	pup.princeton.edu /TOCs/c7152.html (1604 words)

	Barometer of Modern Reason; Author: Descombes, Vincent (Professor of French, Johns Hopkins University, USA); Paperback ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Barometer of Modern Reason; Author: Descombes, Vincent (Professor of French, Johns Hopkins University, USA); Paperback (C Format)
		Explores and questions the means of measurement - the barometer - that is used by philosophers endeavouring to assess the spirit of the age and/or the nature of modern reason.
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	www.netstoreusa.com /phbooks/019/0195079906.shtml (176 words)

	A confusion of tongues -- Descombes 2 (4): 433 -- Anthropological Theory
		A confusion of tongues -- Descombes 2 (4): 433 -- Anthropological Theory
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	ant.sagepub.com /cgi/content/abstract/2/4/433 (171 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2001036380 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2001036380
		Publisher description for The mind's provisions : a critique of cognitivism / Vincent Descombes ; translated by Stephen Adam Schwartz.
		Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/prin022/2001036380.html (294 words)

	Textbooks by Vincent Harding - Direct Textbook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Vincent Descombes - Cambridge University Press - 0521296722
		Vincent Harding - Univ of California Center for Afro - 0934934061
		We Changed the World: African Americans, 1945-1970 (The Young Oxford History of African Americans, V. Vincent Harding - Oxford University Press - 0195087968
	www.directtextbook.com /author/vincent-harding (178 words)

	... 'Objects of All Sorts: A Philosophical Grammar' by Vincent Descombes - at Loanspage.co.uk books for s. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		'Objects of All Sorts: A Philosophical Grammar' by Vincent Descombes - at Loanspage.co.uk books for s.
		Financial book recommended: Objects of All Sorts: A Philosophical Grammar.
		Book summary: author Vincent Descombes, November, 1986 - Johns Hopkins Univ Pr (Hardcover, 0801825512)
	www.loanspage.co.uk /book/0801825512 (179 words)

	Modern French Philosophy by Descombes Books, Discount Books, Search 130 book Stores (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
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	Wittgenstein Reads Freud: The Myth of the Unconscious - Jacques Bouveresse - Vincent Descombes - Carol Cosman - ...
		Wittgenstein Reads Freud: The Myth of the Unconscious - Jacques Bouveresse - Vincent Descombes - Carol Cosman - Microsoft Reader eBook
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	BiblioVault - Why we are not Nietzscheans
		Contending that we must abandon the Nietzsche propped up as patron saint by French deconstructionists in order to return to reason, these essays will stimulate debate not just among Nietzscheans but among all with a stake in modern French philosophy.
		Contributors are Alain Boyer, Andre Compte-Sponville, Vincent Descombes, Luc Ferry, Robert Legros, Philippe Raynaud, Alain Renault, and Pierre-Andre Taguieff.
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