French Hegel

This highly original history of ideas considers the impact of Hegel on French philosophy from the 1920s to the present. As Baugh's lucid narrative makes clear Hegel's influence on French philosophy has been profound and can be traced through all the major intellectual movements and thinkers in France throughout the 20th Century from Jean Wahl Sartre and Bataille to Foucault Deleuze and Derrida. Baugh focuses on Hegel's idea of the unhappy consciousness and provides a bold new account of Hegel's early reception in French intellectual history.