An Atheism That Is not Humanist Emerges in French Thought(English, Electronic book text, Geroulanos Stefanos)

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An Atheism That Is not Humanist Emerges in French Thought(English, Electronic book text, Geroulanos Stefanos) is written by Geroulanos Stefanos and published by Stanford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0804774242 (ISBN 10) and 9780804774246 (ISBN 13).

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 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. In response, they contributed to a new belief that man should no longer be viewed as the basis for existence, thought, and ethics; rather, human nature became dependent on other concepts and structures, including Being, language, thought, and culture. This argument, which was to be paramount for existentialism and structuralism, came to dominate postwar thought. This intellectual history of these developments argues that at their heart lay a new atheism that rejected humanism as insufficient and ultimately violent.