An atheism that is not humanist emerges in French thought

An atheism that is not humanist emerges in French thought / Stefanos Geroulanos.

This book seeks to explain the critiques of humanism and the "negative" philosophical anthropologies that dominated mid-century philosophy and traces the appearance of a new, non-humanist atheism in twentieth-century French thought.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Geroulanos, Stefanos, 1979-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2010.
Series:Cultural memory in the present.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Atheism > France > History > 20th century.
Humanism > France > History > 20th century.
Philosophical anthropology > France > History > 20th century.
Philosophy, French > 20th century.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism.
Atheism
Humanism
Philosophical anthropology
Philosophy, French
France
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : bourgeois humanism and a first death of man
  • The anthropology of antifoundational realism : philosophy of science, phenomenology and "human reality" in France, 1928-1934
  • No humanism except mine! : ideologies of exclusivist universalism and the new men of interwar France
  • Alexandre Kojève's negative anthropology, 1931-1939
  • Inventions of antihumanism, 1935 : phenomenology, the critique of transcendence, and the kenosis of human subjectivity in early existentialism
  • Introduction : the humanist mantle, restored and retorn
  • After the resistance (1) : engagement, being and the demise of philosophical anthropology
  • Atheism and freedom after the death of God : Blanchot, Catholicism, literature, and life
  • After the resistance (2) : Merleau-Ponty, communism, terror and the demise of philosophical anthropology
  • Man in suspension : Jean Hyppolite on history, being, and language.

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