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

Author/Creator:

Geroulanos, Stefanos, 1979-

Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2010.

Series:

Cultural memory in the present
Cultural memory in the present

Format/Description:

Book
xvi, 423 p. ; 23 cm.

Subjects:

Atheism -- France -- History -- 20th century.
Humanism -- France -- History -- 20th century.
Philosophical anthropology -- France -- History -- 20th century.
Philosophy, French -- 20th century.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804762984 (cloth : alk. paper)
0804762988 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804762991 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0804762996 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

473124247

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