Sartre, Nietzsche and Non-Humanist Existentialism Paperback / softback
by David Mitchell
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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 naive '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.
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- Pages:192 pages, IX, 192 p.
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:12/04/2021
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- ISBN:9783030431105
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
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- Pages:192 pages, IX, 192 p.
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:12/04/2021
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- ISBN:9783030431105