Jean-Toussaint Desanti wrote at a period when the questions philosophy asked were themselves being renegotiated.
The record lists Jean-Toussaint Desanti as French philosopher (1914–2002).
Jean-Toussaint Desanti was born at Ajaccio in 1914. His recorded nationality is France. He studied at École Normale Supérieure.
Around the turn of the twentieth century philosophy split into traditions that largely stopped reading one another.
Philosophical influence is measured in the questions a thinker made unavoidable.
That the work was done from France matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Jean-Toussaint Desanti died in 2002, aged 88. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
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