French philosophy 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". The general
Nietzsche and Philosophy philosopher Hans Sluga identifies "Nietzsche and Philosophy" as a possible influence on the philosopher Michel Foucault: he suggests that the work helped Foucault to discover Nietzsche as a "genealogical thinker, the philosopher of the will to power." Che-ming Yang describes "Nietzsche and Philosophy" as "one of Deleuze's masterpieces which highlights that the reading of Nietzsche is central to his own philosophical project". Axel Pérez Trujillo discussed the book in "Estudios Nietzsche: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Estudios sobre Friedrich Nietzsche". Nietzsche and Philosophy Nietzsche and Philosophy () is a 1962 book about Friedrich Nietzsche by the philosopher Gilles Deleuze,