Understanding existentialism
Existentialism sähkökirjat PHILOSOPHY
Acumen
2006
EISBN 9781282921658
1. Existentialism and its heritage.
2. Heidegger and the existential analytic.
3. Condemned to freedom : Sartre's phenomenological ontology.
4. Sartre : hell is other people.
5. Merleau-Ponty and the body.
6. De Beauvoir : feminism and existential ethics.
7. The legacy of existentialism : deconstruction, responsibility and the time of the decision.
The book begins with a discussion of the movement¿santecedents in the ideas of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Husserl, Jaspers and Marcel before examining the coretexts that give existentialism its philosophical foundations: Heidegger¿s Being and Time, Sartre¿s Being and Nothingness, Merleau- Ponty¿s Phenomenology of Perception and de Beauvoir¿s The Ethics of Ambiguity and The Second Sex. The final chapter assesses the legacy of existentialist ideas, particularly their influence on poststructuralism, and argues that existentialism remains a productive school of thought.
2. Heidegger and the existential analytic.
3. Condemned to freedom : Sartre's phenomenological ontology.
4. Sartre : hell is other people.
5. Merleau-Ponty and the body.
6. De Beauvoir : feminism and existential ethics.
7. The legacy of existentialism : deconstruction, responsibility and the time of the decision.
The book begins with a discussion of the movement¿santecedents in the ideas of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Husserl, Jaspers and Marcel before examining the coretexts that give existentialism its philosophical foundations: Heidegger¿s Being and Time, Sartre¿s Being and Nothingness, Merleau- Ponty¿s Phenomenology of Perception and de Beauvoir¿s The Ethics of Ambiguity and The Second Sex. The final chapter assesses the legacy of existentialist ideas, particularly their influence on poststructuralism, and argues that existentialism remains a productive school of thought.
