EAN: 9783954892778

EXISTENTIALISM AND ITS RELEVANCE TO THE CONTEMP...

Existentialism represents a protest against the rationalism of traditional philosophy  against
misleading notions of the bourgeois culture  and the dehumanizing values of industrial
civilization. Since alienation  loneliness and self-estrangement constitute threats to human
personality in the modern world  existential thought has viewed as its cardinal concerns a
quest for subjective truth  a reaction against the negation of Being and a perennial search for
freedom. From the ancient Greek philosopher  Socrates  to the twentieth century French
philosopher  Jean Paul Sartre  and other thinkers have dealt with this tragic sense of
ontological reality - the human situation within a comic context The book put forward is the
beginning of an attempt to revive existentialism by addressing these issues. The idea is
eventually to present a conception of personhood that is recognizably existentialist  or
similar to that presented by writers like Kierkegaard  Heidegger  Jaspers  and Sartre in
certain fundamental ways  but that takes into account the last twenty years of developments in
the many different areas of philosophy that directly affect our understanding of what it is to
be a person. The result will hopefully be a more sophisticated existentialist theory of
personhood that can be presented in contemporary terms as a serious challenge to current dogmas
in metaphysics and moral theory  and be defended against the ascendant naturalistic 
rationalistic  or pragmatist alternatives.

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