Abstract
The question of personal freedom lies at the heart of much of the criticism that Nouveaux philosophes such as Glucksmann, André and Lévy, Bernard-Henri directed at postmodern writers such as Deleuze, Gilles and Guattari, Félix. Glucksmann, André, Lévy, and others often turned to early modern humanists such as François Rabelais and Erasmus in order to help make their case against the postmoderns. This chapter focuses on Glucksmann’s reading of Rabelais’ novels in his Master Thinkers (1977) to show that, while for both Nouveaux philosophes and postmodern antihumanists, personal freedom needs to be understood in terms of individual autonomy, for sixteenth-century humanists freedom can only be grounded in love of the other.