Category: Existentialism

Download Moments of Disruption: Levinas, Sartre, and the Question of by Lévinas, Emmanuel; Sartre, Jean-Paul; Lévinas, Emmanuel; PDF

By Lévinas, Emmanuel; Sartre, Jean-Paul; Lévinas, Emmanuel; Sealey, Kris; Sartre, Jean-Paul

ISBN-10: 1438448643

ISBN-13: 9781438448640

ISBN-10: 1438448651

ISBN-13: 9781438448657

ISBN-10: 143844866X

ISBN-13: 9781438448664

Explores the moral and political implications of Levinas’s and Sartre’s bills of human existence.

In Moments of Disruption, Kris Sealey considers Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Paul Sartre jointly to totally discover the moral and political implications in their related descriptions of human life. concentrating on issues of touch and distinction among their writings on transcendence, identification, life, and alterity, Sealey provides not just an knowing of Sartrean politics during which Levinas’s a bit of apolitical application could be taken into the political, but additionally an explicitly political examining of Levinas that resonates good with Sartre’s paintings. In bringing jointly either thinkers debts of disrupted life during this means, a theoretical position is located from which to query the declare that politics and ethics are together exclusive. 

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Download Jean-Luc Nancy and the Future of Philosophy by B.C. Hutchens PDF

By B.C. Hutchens

ISBN-10: 184465026X

ISBN-13: 9781844650262

ISBN-10: 1844650278

ISBN-13: 9781844650279

The paintings of the modern French thinker Jean-Luc Nancy has impacted throughout various disciplines. His writings on psychoanalysis, theology, paintings, tradition and, after all, philosophy are actually broadly translated and masses mentioned. His L'Experience de los angeles Liberte (1988) is taken into account to be one of many landmarks of latest continental philosophy. Jean-Luc Nancy and the way forward for Philosophy is the 1st real creation to Nancy's rules and a transparent and succinct appraisal of a burgeoning attractiveness. The booklet summarises topically the first conceptual components of Nancy's idea and explores its relevance for modern matters like nationalism, racism and media rights. Nancy's indebtedness to Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Bataille is tested in addition to how his rules evaluate to these of his modern continental thinkers. 3 significant parts of Nancy's paintings are emphasized: freedom and morality; group and politics; and humanities and the media. The reader is guided via a selected topic with no being misplaced in a welter of allusive language, jargon is refrained from the place attainable and whilst unavoidable it's essentially explained.The e-book concludes with a brand new interview with Nancy, which discusses the way forward for philosophy. The e-book may be a massive addition to the readings lists for classes on modern continental proposal and political philosophy.

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Download Contemporary Philosophy: Studies of Logical Positivism and by Frederick Charles Copleston PDF

By Frederick Charles Copleston

ISBN-10: 0826465072

ISBN-13: 9780826465078

Among them, the hobbies of Logical Positivism and Existentialism ruled philosophy in Europe for far of the twentieth century, and the impression they exerted can nonetheless be felt this day. during this book Frederick Copleston presents an in depth and aim creation to those hugely debatable parts of contemporary inspiration. initially written in 1956, and revised in 1972, it explores the paintings of a number of the most crucial thinkers of the 20 th century, together with Ayer, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Sartre and Camus. Written in a transparent and available type, this e-book should still turn out priceless to an individual trying to find a normal advent to both of those influential philosophical events.

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Download Sartre and Psychoanalysis: An Existentialist Challenge to by Betty Cannon PDF

By Betty Cannon

ISBN-10: 0700604456

ISBN-13: 9780700604456

Betty Cannon is the 1st to discover the consequences of Sartrean philosophy for the Freudian psychoanalytic culture. Drawing upon Sartre's paintings in addition to her personal reviews as a training therapist, she indicates that Sartre used to be a "fellow tourist" who favored Freud's psychoanalytic achievements yet rebelled opposed to the determinism of his metatheory. The brain, Sartre argued, can't be decreased to a suite of drives and buildings, neither is it enslaved to its earlier as Freud's paintings steered. Sartre endorsed an existentialist psychoanalysis according to human freedom and the self's skill to reshape its personal which means and cost. throughout the Sartrean process Cannon bargains a answer to the drawback in psychoanalytic metatheory created by means of the present emphasis on relational wishes. through evaluating Sartre with Freud and influential post-Freudians like Melanie Klein, Otto Kernber, Margaret Mahler, D.W. Winnicott, Heinz Kohut, Harry Stack Sullivan, and Jacques Lacan, she demonstrates why the Sartrean version transcends the restrictions of conventional Freudian metatheory. within the method, she provides a brand new size to our figuring out of Sartre and his position in twentieth-century philosophy.

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Download The Moviegoer by Walker Percy PDF

By Walker Percy

ISBN-10: 1453216251

ISBN-13: 9781453216255

Unique booklet: 1960, 1961

Percy’s nationwide publication Award­–winning vintage: a tender guy, torn among the forces of culture and alter, searches for which means in post-war AmericaOn the cusp of his 30th birthday, Binx Bolling is a misplaced soul. A stockbroker and member of a longtime New Orleans kinfolk, Binx’s one get away is the movie show that transports him from the falseness of his lifestyles. With Mardi Gras in complete swing, Binx, with his cousin Kate, units out to discover his actual goal amid the excesses of the carnival that surrounds him. Buoyant but strong, The Moviegoer is a poignant indictment of contemporary values, and an unforgettable tale of every week that would switch lives forever.
This book positive aspects an illustrated biography of Walker Percy together with infrequent pictures from the author’s property.

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Download The Existentialist Moment: The Rise of Sartre as a Public by Patrick Baert PDF

By Patrick Baert

ISBN-10: 0745685412

ISBN-13: 9780745685410

Jean-Paul Sartre is frequently obvious because the integral public highbrow, yet this used to be now not continuously the case. until eventually the mid-1940s he was once now not so famous, even in France. Then without warning, in a really brief time period, Sartre turned an highbrow superstar. How do we clarify this notable transformation?

The Existentialist second retraces Sartre?s profession and gives a compelling new rationalization of his meteoric upward thrust to popularity. Baert takes the reader again to the complicated and hectic interval of the second one global struggle and its rapid aftermath and indicates how the original political and highbrow panorama in France at the moment helped to propel Sartre and existentialist philosophy to the fore. The publication additionally explores why, from the early Sixties onwards, in France and in other places, the curiosity in Sartre and existentialism finally waned. The Existentialist second ends with a daring new idea for the research of intellectuals and a provocative problem to the frequent trust that the general public highbrow is a species now close to extinction.

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Download A Literary Review (Penguin Classics) aka "Two Ages" by Søren Kierkegaard PDF

By Søren Kierkegaard

ISBN-10: 0140448012

ISBN-13: 9780140448016

Ostensibly, A Literary Review is a simple remark through Soren Kierkegaard at the paintings of a latest novelist. On deeper degrees, in spite of the fact that, it turns into the existential philosopher's far-reaching critique of his society and age, and its apocalyptic ultimate sections encouraged the valuable rules in Martin Heidegger's influential paintings Being and Time. Embraced by way of many readers as prophetic, A Literary Review and its suggestions stay proper to our present debates on identification, habit, and social conformity.

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Download The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth PDF

By John Barth

ISBN-10: 0553104713

ISBN-13: 9780553104714

Thought of by means of critics to be Barth's so much exceptional novel, The Sot-Weed issue has received the prestige of a latest vintage. Set within the past due 1600s, it recounts the chaotic odyssey of the hapless, ungainly Ebeneezer Cooke. Cooke is distributed to the hot global to supervise his father's tobacco company and to list the struggles of the Maryland colony in an epic poem. On his project, he's captured by way of pirates and Indians; loses his father's property to roguish impostors; falls in love with a former prostitute;is approximately robbed of his virginity, which he's (almost)determined to guard; and meets a gallery of treacherous characters who constantly change identities. The Sot-Weed issue is a hilarious, bawdy tribute to the entire so much insidious human vices with lasting relevance for readers of all instances.

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Download Fanon and the Crisis of European Man: An Essay on Philosophy by Lewis R. Gordon PDF

By Lewis R. Gordon

ISBN-10: 0415914140

ISBN-13: 9780415914147

Because the first publication to investigate the paintings of Fanon as an existential-phenomenological of human sciences and liberation thinker, Gordon deploys Fanon's paintings to light up how the "bad religion" of ecu technology and civilization have philosophically stymied the undertaking of liberation. Fanon's physique of labor serves as a critique of ecu technological know-how and society, and exhibits the ways that the undertaking of "truth" is compromised by way of Eurocentric artificially narrowed scope of humanity--a condition to which he refers because the quandary of ecu guy. In his exam of the roots of this predicament, Gordon explores the issues of old salvation and the dynamics of oppression, the inducement at the back of modern ecu obstruction of the development of a racially simply global, the types of anonymity that pervade racist theorizing and give a contribution to "seen invisibility," and the explanations at the back of the impossibility of a nonviolent transition from colonialism and neocolonialism to postcolonialism.

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