Description: The thinking of these philosophers, and scores of others, cannot be understood without being placed in the context of the times in which they lived.
Brief description: Christian Delacampagne is a graduate of the École Normale Supérieure 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 attaché of the French Embassy in Boston. He presently teaches in the Department of French and Italian at Connecticut College, in New London.
Review Quotes: 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.
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