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An atheism that is not humanist emerges in French thought
An atheism that is not humanist emerges in French thought
Geroulanos, Stefanos
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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. Abstract: 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. Read more...
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Year:
2010
Publisher:
Stanford University Press
Language:
English
Pages:
423
ISBN 10:
0804774242
ISBN 13:
9780804774246
ISBN:
9780804774246,0804774242
Series:
Cultural memory in the present
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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.
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