| Situation and Human Existence: Freedom, Subjectivity and Society Contributor(s): Kruks, Sonia (Author) |
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ISBN: 0367110989 ISBN-13: 9780367110987 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $42.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Humanism |
| Dewey: 128.4 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.74 lbs) 236 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Social philosophy oscillates between two opposing ideas: that individuals fashion society, and that society fashions individuals. The concept of 'situation' was elaborated by the French existentialist thinkers to avoid this dilemma. Individuals are seen as actively situating themselves in society at the same time as being situated by it. This book, first published in 1990, traces the development of the concept of situation through the work of Gabriel Marcel, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. It shows how it illuminates questions of self or subjectivity, embodiment and gender, society and history, and argues that it goes far beyond the currently fashionable notions of the 'death of the subject'. |
