French philosophy a woman. French philosophy French philosophy, here taken to mean philosophy in the French language, has been extremely diverse and has influenced Western philosophy as a whole for centuries, from the medieval scholasticism of Peter Abelard, through the founding of modern philosophy by René Descartes, to 20th century philosophy of science, existentialism, phenomenology, structuralism, and postmodernism. Peter Abelard (1079 – April 21, 1142) was a scholastic philosopher, theologian and logician. The story of his affair with and love for Héloïse has become legendary. The "Chambers Biographical Dictionary" describes him as "the keenest thinker and boldest theologian of the 12th Century".
Freud and Philosophy psychoanalysts or psychologists would accept them. The critic Frederick Crews commented in "Out of My System" (1975) that "school of suspicion" was an apt term for Ricœur's grouping of Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud. The philosopher Vincent Descombes noted in "Modern French Philosophy" (1979) that "Freud and Philosophy" led to "polemic between the Lacanians" and Ricœur. John B. Thompson described "Freud and Philosophy" as a "well-known and justly acclaimed study of Freud" in his introduction to Ricœur's "Hermeneutics and the human sciences" (1981). He compared Ricœur's views to Lacan's, writing that despite differences between the two, both accepted the "irreducible role