Sartre, Nietzsche and non-humanist existentialism /
This book argues that existentialisms concern with human existence does not simply make it another form of humanism. Influenced by Heideggers 1947 'Letter on Humanism, structuralist and post-structuralist critics have both argued that existentialism is synonymous with a naèive 'humanist id...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Summary: | This book argues that existentialisms concern with human existence does not simply make it another form of humanism. Influenced by Heideggers 1947 'Letter on Humanism, structuralist and post-structuralist critics have both argued that existentialism is synonymous with a naèive 'humanist idea of the subject. Such identification has led to the movements 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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| Physical Description: | ix, 192 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783030431075 303043107X |