David Mitchell

Sartre, Nietzsche and Non-Humanist Existentialism (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783030431082
• Artikelnr.: 59178386

Autorenporträt

Dr David Mitchell received his PhD from the University of Liverpool, UK. Since 2015 he has been working as a lecturer and researcher at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Inhaltsangabe

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.

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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.