Cultural Memory - in the Present -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Man Under Erasure: Introduction -- PART I - THE 1930S -- Introduction: Bourgeois - Humanism and a First Death of Man -- 1. The Death of Man (1926)? -- 2. "Bourgeois" Humanism and Academic Idealism -- 1 - The Anthropology of Antifoundational Realism: Philosophy of Science, Phenomenology, and "Human Reality" in France, 1928-1934 -- 1. Institutions and the Generational Rift -- 2. Realism at the Dusk of Modern Science: Phenomenology and Quanta in Paris -- 3. (Beyond) the Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Subjectivity -- 4. "Human Reality": Conclusions -- 2 - No Humanism Except Mine! Ideologies of Exclusivist Universalism and the New Men of Interwar France -- 1. The Problem of Exclusivist Humanisms in Interwar France -- 2. The New Men of the 1930s -- 3. Coincidentia Oppositorum -- Coda -- 3 - Alexandre Kojève's Negative Anthropology, 1931-1939 -- 1. Christomimesis, Theanthropy, and St. Paul -- 2. Reintroducing Kojève -- 3. Ontological Dualism, the "Lieutenant of the Nothing," and a Recasting of Hegelian Negation -- 4. Homogeneity, Ontological and Social -- 5. Reason and the Modernity of Philosophical Anthropology: Reactions to Bayle and Fessard -- 6. Anthropotheism/Theanthropy -- 7. "Il n'y aura jamais plus rien de nouveau sur terre": The End of History as Death of Man -- 8. Influence: Mastery of Self, a System for Marxism, and the Death of Man -- 4 - Inventions of Antihumanism, 1935: Phenomenology, the Critique of Transcendence, and the Kenosis of Human Subjectivity in Early Existentialism -- 1. The End of Classical Transcendence and the Illusions of Modern Humanism -- 2. Humanity as the Realm of Intersubjectivity in Sartre's "Transcendence of the Ego".

3. Sovereignty, Kenosis, and the Reconstruction of the I (Bataille's The Blue of Noon) -- 4. Escape as the Impossible Guarantee of Another Humanity (Phenomenology, Nazism, Levinas) -- 5. The Disproportion of Man: Negative Anthropology and Ciphers of Existentialism -- 6. Coda -- PART II - THE POSTWAR DECADE -- Introduction: The Humanist - Mantle, Restored and Retorn -- 5 - After the Resistance (1): Engagement, Being, and the Demise of Philosophical Anthropology -- 6 - Atheism and Freedom After the Death of God: Blanchot, Catholicism, Literature, and Life -- 1. An Atheist Critique of a Catholic Critique of Atheist Humanism -- 2. Freedom, the Writing of a New Epoch, and the Last Act -- 7 - After the Resistance (2): Merleau-Ponty, Communism, Terror, and the Demise of Philosophical Anthropology -- 8 - Man in Suspension: Jean Hyppolite on History, Being, and Language -- 1. Lucus a Non Lucendo: Beyond Humanism, Violence, and Metaphysics -- 2. Dialectical Roadkill and the en-deçà ("Humanisme et hégélianisme" in short) -- 3. Man in Suspension I ("Humanisme et hégélianisme," the Lecture Text) -- 4. From Contentless Antithesis to Unbalanced Category (Hyppolite and Kojève) -- 5. Marionette: Man in Suspension II -- 6. On Ambiguity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Cultural Memory in the Present.