Towards a Critical Existentialism
Truth, Relevance and Politics
Series: Intersections in Continental and Analytic Philosophy;
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Product details:
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Date of Publication 13 September 2022
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781399508322
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages264 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English 295
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Short description:
Jeffrey Bell develops a critical existentialism and provides a new way of integrating the concerns of existentialist writers into contemporary political and social debates.
MoreLong description:
Jeffrey Bell argues that a motivating problematic for existentialist writers is the attempt to think through the implications of the problematic nature of life.
He applies a Deleuzian theory of problems to an analysis of some key concepts in contemporary social and political theory. Building on the metaphysics of problems set out in his book, An Inquiry into Analytic-Continental Metaphysics, he provides a new way of integrating the concerns of existentialist writers into contemporary political and social debates.
Table of Contents:
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Introduction
§1 Making Sense of Life
- Signs of Jealousy
- ...to be undermined
- Hume and delirium
- Making sense and problems
- Making Sense of God
- Spinoza and the ‘inmost essence’ of God
- The ultimate elements of nature
- Making sense of things
- Matters of Taste
- The truth one deserves
- Hume’s ""Of the Standard of Taste""
- Constructing problems
§2 Communication Problems
- Signal-sign systemsInformation theory
- Signal-sign systems (with excursus on ethology)
- Making Sense of Stories
- Political narrative
- To think against one’s will
- Plato on contradictory perceptions
- Coping with loss (Plato, Stoics, Spinoza)
- Authenticity (Heidegger)
§3 Making Sense of Politics
- Arbitrary Power
- Forced narratives
- Making sense of capital
- Challenging Narratives
- Good faith/bad faith narratives
- Conspiracy theories
§4 Stop Making Sense
- Existentialism Revisited
- Kierkegaard and infinite difference
- Sartre on bad faith
- Camus and metaphysical rebellion
- Facts and Fictions
- Finding one’s way
- Adorno and critical existentialism
§5 Towards a Critical Existentialism
- A Sense of Place
- Justified murder
- Wayfinding
- ...à fond perdu
- Pure Market Illusions
- A family affair
- Hume and improvement
- ""...but it is legal.""
- Critical existentialism
- Freedom
- Law
- Progress
Conclusion
Bibliography
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