French Existentialism

Consciousness, Ethics, and Relations with Others
Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-90-420-0488-7
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 87, 219 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 417 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series / Nordic Value Studies

This book is a critical appraisal of the distinctive modern school of thought known as French existentialism. It philosophically engages the ideas of the major French existentialists, namely, Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty, Marcel, Camus, and, because of his central role in the movement, especially Sartre, in a fresh attempt to elucidate their contributions to contemporary philosophy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Giles, James

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editorial Foreword. Acknowledgements. James GILES: Introduction
ONE Elizabeth MURRAY MORELLI: The Duality in Sartre's Account of Reflective Consciousness
TWO Edmond WRIGHT: Merleau-Ponty and the Sensory
THREE Matthew KIERAN: French Existential Ethics and the Creation of Value
FOUR Terry KEEFE: The Ethical Concept of Assuming in the Existential Philosophy of Sartre and Beauvoir
FIVE Margaret A. SIMONS: The Origins of Beauvoir's Existential Philosophy
SIX Juliette SIMONT: Sartre's Critique of Humanism
SEVEN Philip STRATTON-LAKE: Marcel, Hope, and Virtue
EIGHT James GILES: Sartre, Sexual Desire, and Relations with Others
NINE Thomas JONES: Useless Passions?
TEN Christine MARGERRISON: Struggling with the Other: Gender and Race in the Youthful Writings of Camus
About the Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

JAMES GILES is Acting Lecturer at the University of Copenhagen, and Tutor at Madingley Hall, University of Cambridge. He has also taught at the Hawaii College of Kansai Gaidai University, Japan, Aalborg University, and the University of Edinburgh. He is author of No Self to be Found: The Search for Personal Identity (1997), A Study in Phenomenalism (1994), A Theory of Sexual Desire (forthcoming), and editor of Kierkegaard and Freedom (forthcoming).