New Philosophers

With Nouvelle Philosophy ( often also speaks of the new philosophers ) refers to a group of French intellectuals to André Glucksmann, Alain Finkielkraut and Bernard Henri- Lévy. This emerged in the 1970s with a critique of " left -wing " came into fashion philosophers such as Jean -Paul Sartre and various post-structuralists. This " left " philosophers would - so the criticism of the new philosophers - provide Community and ideological ideals about humanistic aspects, in particular the aspect of the individual. The "left" philosophers would be assigned the same anti-humanist tradition as Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger.

In the recent time the critics of the new philosophers focused on multiculturalism and an indifference which oppose bringing the "left" the humanitarian needs of members of other cultures. This is a purely Western invention. In particular, the related controversy by Pascal Bruckner and Paul Cliteur was pursued internationally.

Characteristic of the new philosophers is a fundamental reservation against arguments " from the left ". This would appreciate the authority of "left " tradition in principle too high, especially what concerns the spiritual heritage of the Left Hegelianism and of Karl Marx. The fact that the ( French ) intellectuals must be a " left" set thinkers, as manifest this Jean -Paul Sartre and Michel Foucault, is not only a common stereotype, but a stop -less cliché.

The move was vehemently criticized, inter alia, by Gilles Deleuze. This spoke of a return "big concepts " within the framework of dualistic oppositions - something against which his own generation have struggled with good reasons.