French Hegel: From Surrealism to Postmodernism

1. The anthropological turn -- 2. Pan-tragicism -- 3. The existential protest : Wahl and Fondane -- 4. The uses of negativity : Breton and Lefebvre -- 5. Bataille : negativity unemployed -- 6. The unhappy consciousness in Sartre's philosophy -- 7. The persistence of the unhappy consciousness : Derrida -- 8. Beyond Hegel? Deleuze, Foucault, and the new empiricism.