An Atheism That Is Not Humanist Emerges in French Thought

by Stefanos Geroulanos

Book Overview

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 Koj ve, Levinas, Heidegger, Koyr , 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804762996
• ISBN13: 9780804762991
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"