Table of Contents

Translator's Introduction vii

Chapter I Opening Movement: The Rise and Fall of Humanism 1

Chapter II The Threatened Human 23

Chapter III The Illegitimacy of the Human? 39

Chapter IV A Medieval Questioning of the Legitimacy of Man: The "Sincere Brethren" 55

Chapter V The Word "Antihumanism": Alexander Blok 72

Chapter VI Contesting Humanism: Michael Foucault 89

Chapter VII The Legitimacy of Modern Times? The Case of Hans Blumenberg 112

Chapter VIII Who Makes Man? 134

Chapter IX Being as a Command 153

The Origin of the Texts 172

Index 174