 Circulating
Being : From Embodiment to Incorporation
(Perspectives in Continental Philosophy, No. 7) by
Thomas
W. Busch
Existentialism has come to be identified as a
critical, reactionary way of thinking, celebrating the
individual, freedom, embodiment, and the limits of rationality
and systematic theorizing. For the most part this assessment is
true of the early and, by now, "classical" works of
existentialism, those that first burst upon the philosophical
and cultural scene. Circulating Being centers on the later works
of several well-known French existentialists (Camus, Marcel,
Sartre, Merleau-Ponty) to trace out the development of their
existential thinking about language, communicative life, ethics,
and politics. This development "from embodiment to
incorporation" carries existentialism beyond identification
with the mere reactionary and reveals how, while prefiguring
postmodernism in important ways, the existential thinkers dealt
with here reveal themselves to be reconstructive of the Western
tradition. This is apparent in the growing appreciation of
difference in their late works along with a reluctance to
surrender the ideal of unity, and in their reappropriation of
truth and justice while repudiating a totalizing metaphysics.
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Maintained by Brent Dean Robbins. Mythos & Logos is dedicated to the exploration of existential-phenomenological philosophy,
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An International Philosophical Review (formerly: Man and
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Existentialism: a cry towards the absurd. philosophy, art and
poetry, related to this movement, discussion board, chat, free email.
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Interesting page about existential despair.
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Offers a summary of
existentialist thought by focusing on its major themes.
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Page giving a brief description of existential psychology.
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A page devoted to the study of all philosophy, but with a focus on
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Castaneda, a little quantum physics and many other ideas... plus a host of original thought.
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