An Atheism that Is Not Humanist Emerges in French Thought

By:

Stefanos Geroulanos

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cultural Memory in the Present

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French philosophy changed dramatically in the second quarter of the twentieth century. In the wake of World War I and, later, the Nazi and Soviet disasters, major philosophers such as Kojeve, Levinas, Heidegger, Koyre, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and Hyppolite argued that man could no longer fill the void left by the "death of God" without also calling up the worst in human history and denigrating the dignity of the human subject. In response, they contributed to a new belief that man should no longer be viewed as the basis for existence, thought, and ethics; rather, human nature became dependent on other concepts and structures, including Being, language, thought, and culture. This argument, which was to be paramount for existentialism and structuralism, came to dominate postwar thought. This intellectual history of these developments argues that at their heart lay a new atheism that rejected humanism as insufficient and ultimately violent.

Author Biography:

Stefanos Geroulanos is Assistant Professor of Modern European Intellectual History at New York University.

Release date NZ

March 8th, 2010

Author

Stefanos Geroulanos

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Pages

448

Series

Cultural Memory in the Present

Dimensions

3895x5830x661

ISBN-13

9780804762991

Product ID

4047082

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