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Situation and Human Existence: Freedom, Subjectivity and Society (Routledge Library Editions: Existentialism) - Softcover

Book 1 of 10: Routledge Library Editions: Existentialism

Kruks, Sonia

 
9780367110987: Situation and Human Existence: Freedom, Subjectivity and Society (Routledge Library Editions: Existentialism)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0367110989 ISBN 13: 9780367110987
Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

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’.

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Sonia Kruks

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0367110989
ISBN 13 
9780367110987
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
236