Table of Contents

Contents: Preface to the English-Language Edition Preface to the Original Edition Introduction: The Birth of Modernity 1 The Sure Path of Science Progress in Logic From Logic to Phenomenology From Logic to Politics Wittgenstein's Dissidence 2 Philosophies of the End The End of Europe The End of Oppression The End of Metaphysics After the End 3 Conceiving Auschwitz Paths of Exile Heidegger's Choice Preliminary Inquiries Investigation of the Case 4 In the Cold War Partisans of Liberalism Defender of Liberty In Search of a Third Way Avatars of Marxism 5 Reason in Question Structure versus Subject A History of Truth From Deconstruction to Neopragmatism Communication or Investigation? Epilogue: The Unfinished Cathedral Notes Select Bibliography Index

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By attending to the role of philosophers in concrete historical events, Delacampagne entwines the lives and work of philosophers into a dramatic and captivating narrative that is sure to spark considerable discussion. -- John Symons, Emerson College, Boston

About the Author

Christian Delacampagne is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. He has served as director of the French Institutes in Barcelona, Cairo, Madrid, and Tel-Aviv and, more recently, as the cultural and scientific attache of the French Embassy in Boston. He presently teaches in the Department of French and Italian at Connecticut College, in New London.

Reviews

A richly detailed picture of the works of philosophy... [Delacampagne] proves to be an enlivening guide to the labyrinth of recent philosophical thought... He lucidly outlines the convergence and divergence of lines of thought in the bewildering maze of modern intellectual life. -- Neal Leavitt Boston Book Review This is no ordinary history of philosophy. Its novelty lies not only in the fact that it locates the great philosophers of the twentieth century within the tragic events of our century, but, so far as I know, it is the first history of philosophy that points out the effects on and the responses of different philosophers to the Holocaust. Dimensions Delacampagne relates major philosophical trends over the past 120 years on both sides of the Atlantic to their historic settings... The scope of this survey is impressive. Choice