Atheism That Is Not Humanist Emerges in French Thought

Zusatztext "[Geroulanos's] work offers an impressive narrative of the complex history of anti-humanism in twentieth-century French thought . . . . [T]he book is rich in historical detail, suggestive in its historical analysis, and provocative philosophically." Informationen zum Autor Stefanos Geroulanos is Assistant Professor of Modern European Intellectual History at New York University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Stefanos Geroulanos
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.03.2010
• EAN: 9780804762984
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-6298-4
• No. of pages: 448
• Series: Cultural Memory in the Present; Cultural Memory in the Present
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day