1st Edition

Heidegger and French Philosophy Humanism, Antihumanism and Being

By Tom Rockmore Copyright 1995
    272 Pages
    by Routledge

    270 Pages
    by Routledge

    Martin Heidegger's impact on contemporary thought is important and controversial. However in France, the influence of this German philosopher is such that contemporary French thought cannot be properly understood without reference to Heidegger and his extraordinary influence.
    Tom Rockmore examines the reception of Heidegger's thought in France. He argues that in the period after the Second World War, due to the peculiar nature of the humanist French Philosophical tradition, Heidegger became the master thinker of French philosophy. Perhaps most importantly, he contends that this reception - first as philosophical anthropology and later as postmetaphysical humanism - is systematically mistaken.

    Table of contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Heidegger as a French philosopher 2. Heidegger and the master thinker in French philosophy 3. German phenomenology, French philosophy, and subjectivity 4. Heidegger, Sarte, and French humanism 5. Jean Beaufret and the Letter on Humanism 6. Heidegger's Letter on Humanism and French Heidefferianism 7 On Heidegger and contemporary French philosophy 8. Heidegger's Politics and French Philosophy 9. Heidegger, French philosophy, and the philosophical tradition

    Biography

    Tom Rockmore is Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh. His most recent books include On Heidegger's Nazism and Philosophy and Hegel and Contemporary Philosophy.