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Author Geroulanos, Stefanos, 1979-

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

Publication Info. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 423 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Cultural memory in the present
Cultural memory in the present.
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary 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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Subject Atheism -- France -- History -- 20th century.
Atheism.
France.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Humanism -- France -- History -- 20th century.
Humanism.
Philosophical anthropology -- France -- History -- 20th century.
Philosophical anthropology.
Philosophy, French -- 20th century.
Philosophy, French.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Geroulanos, Stefanos, 1979- Atheism that is not humanist emerges in French thought. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2010 9780804762984 (DLC) 2009049745 (OCoLC)473124247
ISBN 9780804774246 (electronic book)
0804774242 (electronic book)
9780804762984 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780804762991 (paperback ; alkaline paper)