French Literature Reviews - 2026
V. Bergen, Philosophical Resistances
Philosophy, Anthropology and Ideas
Philosophical Resistances
Véronique Bergen
Published on: 11/03/2009
Publisher: PUF
Series: Travaux pratiques
ISBN: 978-2-13-057448-4
EAN: 9782130574484
No. of pages: 151 pages
Publisher's price: 16.00€
The last century continually illustrated the following maxim: to be is to resist.
Today still, Sartre, Deleuze, and Badiou remain its tutelary figures. But what kind of resistance is at stake? Against what? And for what purpose? Perhaps it is high time to question what the act of resisting truly means. Is it genuinely enough simply to declare oneself in opposition in order to be considered a resistor? Should we not rather accept that any resistance implies the invention of new worlds? Yet if that is the case, speaking of resistance loses all meaning: from now on, we must speak of resistances in the plural.
For no one can predict the face that a resistance will take—except that it will bear the visage of singularity.
Table of Contents:
KNOTS
ARTICULATIONS
OPERATORS
POSTURES
IMPACTS
STATE OF AFFAIRS UNDERMINED FROM WITHIN
VISAGES
ANIMALS
SITUATION
TIME
About the Author:
Véronique Bergen is a philosopher and writer.
A contributor to Multitudes, Lignes, and Failles, she is the author of an extensive body of poetry, as well as several novels (including Kaspar Hauser, ou la phrase préférée du vent, Denoël, 2006; Fleuve de cendres, Denoël, 2008), and two essays: Jean Genet entre mythe et réalité (De Boeck, 1993) and L'Ontologie de Gilles Deleuze (L'Harmattan, 2001).
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An article on this work can be read on laviedesidees.fr:
Véronique Bergen is a philosopher and writer associated with journals such as Multitudes and Lignes, with previous publications addressing Gilles Deleuze and Jean Genet. Readers interested in contemporary continental philosophy and political theory may find this work relevant to broader discussions on agency and thought.