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Autore: | Mitchell David |
Titolo: | Sartre, Nietzsche and Non-Humanist Existentialism [[electronic resource] /] / by David Mitchell |
Pubblicazione: | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. 2020. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (ix, 192 pages) |
Disciplina: | 194 |
Soggetto topico: | Existentialism |
Humanism | |
Note generali: | Includes index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 1. Introduction: Existentialism and Humanism -- 2. Nietzsche's Non-humanist Existentialism: Perversity and Genealogy -- 3. Nietzsche's Non-humanist Existentialism: Secondary Perversion and the Slave Revolt -- 4. Sartre, Nothingness and Perversity -- 5. Sartre, Perversity and Self-Evasion -- 6. Sartre, Perversity and Self-Deception. . |
Sommario/riassunto: | This book argues that existentialism’s concern with human existence does not simply make it another form of humanism. Influenced by Heidegger’s 1947 ‘Letter on Humanism’, structuralist and post-structuralist critics have both argued that existentialism is synonymous with a naïve ‘humanist’ idea of the subject. Such identification has led to the movement’s dismissal as a credible philosophy; this book aims to challenge such a view. Through a lucid and thought-provoking exploration of the concept of perversity in Sartre and Nietzsche, Mitchell argues that understanding the human as a ‘perversion’ of something other than itself allows us to have a philosophy of the human without the humanist subject. In short, through perversion, we can talk about the human as not merely having a relation to the world, but of being that relation. With an explicit defence of Sartre against the charge of humanism, accompanied by a novel and distinctive reinterpretation of Nietzsche, Mitchell recovers an existentialism that is at once both radical and philosophically relevant. . |
Titolo autorizzato: | Sartre, Nietzsche and Non-Humanist Existentialism |
ISBN: | 3-030-43108-8 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910390857603321 |
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