Sartre's philosophy of social existence

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Sartre's philosophy of social existence

George J. Stack

(Modern revivals in philosophy)

Gregg Revivals, 1992

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Reprint. Originally published: [St. Louis, Mo.] : Warren H. Green , 1977

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Description

"Sartre's Philosophy of Social Existence" is a critical interpretation of Jean-Paul Sartre's phenomenology of social existence and the dynamics of group-formation. It seeks to trade the foreshadowing of a theory of individual action in the practical field of social existence in "Being and Nothingness" and sees a continuity between this work and Sartre's "Critique of Rational Dialectic" (1960). The movement in Sartre's thought from the abstract freedom of consciousness to concrete freedom and individual "praxis" is illuminated in relation to his description of a complex social dialectic. It is shown that as Sartre develops an account of social group-formation he admits determinations and necessities that undermine his attempt to preserve the idea of free individual "praxis".

Table of Contents

  • The world for consciousness - consciousness as nothingness
  • negatives
  • projects and concrete action
  • freedom and existence for others - existence for others
  • social dimensions of the other
  • the social dialectic - dialectical hyperempiricism
  • social determinism and freedom
  • dialetical reason
  • social phenomena
  • a phenomenology of social relations - critical dialectic versus dogmatic dialectic
  • scarcity, action, and group formation
  • the coercive power of the group
  • necessity and the neglect of the irrational.

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  • NCID
    BA24574416
  • ISBN
    • 0751200581
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Aldershot
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiii, 149 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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