La naissance de l'anti-hégélianisme

Against a simplistic view of Louis Althusser's and Michel Foucault’s anti-Hegelianism during the 1960s, the book goes through the early works of these philosophers to shed a light on the importance of Hegel for the elaboration of their problematic. By a meticulous reading of Althusser’s and Foucault’s intellectual itinerary, supported by numerous archival materials, the book aims to explain how they elaborated their thought by an immanent critique of Hegelianism.

The new understanding of reason, subject and history that happened in French philosophy during the 1960s takes on a new meaning: the great philosophical reinvention at this time did not happen only against Hegel, but also through a fruitful dialogue with Hegel’s work. The meaning given to the whole French philosophy in the second part of the twentieth century is thus radically transformed.