| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 423 pages) |
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Cultural memory in the present |
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Cultural memory in the present.
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Atheism -- France -- History -- 20th century
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Humanism -- France -- History -- 20th century
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Philosophical anthropology -- France -- History -- 20th century
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Philosophy, French -- 20th century.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism.
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Atheism
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Humanism
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Philosophical anthropology
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Philosophy, French
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France
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780804774246 |
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0804774242 |
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