French Existentialism
Consciousness, Ethics, and Relations with Others
Published on 1. January 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
225 pages
978-90-420-0488-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 150 mm
Weight
417 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-0488-7 (9789042004887)
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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).
Content
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
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