Summary
Igor Smirnov: Homo homini philosophus
The book "Homo homini philosophus" by Igor Smirnov is dedicated to the history of philosophical anthropology and asks how it can be rescued from the dead end it reached when postmodernism announced that man died. The death of man, which Western European philosophy proclaimed in the sixties of the 20th century, was disastrous for philosophy itself. Always contradictory, this discourse took its character to the extreme in the works of Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, Baudrillard, Lyotard and other French postmodernists. The return to the classical problems of philosophy at the end of postmodernism marks the abandonment of philosophizing that has compromised itself. The subject, who was destroyed by postmodernism, can only be revived by negative statements about him. Nevertheless, it is possible and necessary for man to think. After his death, he appears as an I-object, a suicide, occupied by the history of transitional culture.
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