Title
Circulating Being : From Embodiment to Incorportation / Thomas Busch.
ISBN
9780823295296
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©1999
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (220 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1515/9780823295296 doi
Summary
Existentialism has come to be identified as a critical, reactionary way of thinking, celebrating the individual, freedom, embodiment, and the limits of rationality and systematic theorizing. For the most part this assessment is true of the early and, by now, "classical" works of existentialism, those that first burst upon the philosophical and cultural scene. Circulating Being centers on the later works of several well-known French existentialists (Camus, Marcel, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty) to trace out the development of their existential thinking about language, communicative life, ethics, and politics. This development "from embodiment to incorporation" carries existentialism beyond identification with the mere reactionary and reveals how, while prefiguring postmodernism in important ways, the existential thinkers dealt with here reveal themselves to be reconstructive of the Western tradition. This is apparent in the growing appreciation of difference in their late works along with a reluctance to surrender the ideal of unity, and in their reappropriation of truth and justice while repudiating a totalizing metaphysics.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
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Series
Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Available in Other Form
print 9780823219292
Frontmatter
PERSPECTIVES IN CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY SERIES
CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Albert Camus: Absurdity, Solidarity, and Difference
2. Gabriel Marcel: Reflection as Interpretation
3. Jean-Paul Sartre and Judith Butler: Phenomenological and Poststructuralist Existentialism
4. Sartre on Language and Politics (with Reference to Particularity)
5. Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Alterity and Dialogue
6. Merleau-Ponty and Ricoeur on Perception, Finitude, and Transgression
Conclusion: Consensus or Creation?
Selected Bibliography
Index
