New Philosophers

The New Philosophers (French nouveaux philosophes) were a group of French philosophers (for example, André Glucksmann and Bernard Henri-Lévy) who appeared in the early 1970s, as critics of the previously-fashionable philosophers, which would include the post-structuralists, and their own former ideas, which in most cases were Maoist.

Related Topics:
André Glucksmann - Bernard Henri-Lévy - Post-structuralist - Maoist

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The mark of the new philosophers was to cast a general doubt on the tendency to argue from 'the left', by attributing too much inherent power-worship in the whole tradition, or at least what it borrowed from Hegel and Marx.

Related Topics:
Hegel - Marx

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Their soubriquet possibly is a reference to the philosophers of the future that Nietzsche anticipated in his work Beyond Good and Evil.

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