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Realizing freedom : Hegel, Sartre, and the alienation of human being / Gavin Rae.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rae, Gavin, 1982-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.
- Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980.
- Sartre, Jean-Paul.
- Alienation (Philosophy).
- Philosophical anthropology.
- Human beings.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 250 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Summary:
- What is it to be human?
- What place do we have in the world?
- How should we live?
- What can we be?
- This book provides a comparative analysis of the responses that Hegel and Sartre give to these questions and, in so doing, offers one of the first sustained, comparative studies of their thought available in the English speaking world. The discussion is wide-ranging in that it engages with each thinker's conception of freedom, ethics, consciousness, social relations, group formations, and the self, before comparing the two to show that it is Hegel who provides the more logically consistent, subtle, and holistic analysis. But while the argument developed maintains that Hegel's analysis is superior to Sartre's, the book concludes by showing that a number of questions remain regarding the social formation that Hegel thinks is necessary to allow the individual to overcome his alienation from the social world. As such, the battle for human self-understanding and fulfilment is far from over. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Sartre's Existential Ontology 11
- The purpose and status of Being and Nothingness 12
- The ontological characteristics of being-for-itself 14
- The ontological characteristics of being-in-itself 22
- Facticity 25
- Freedom 28
- The universal value and the fundamental project 34
- Conversion and the desire to be God 37
- Conclusion 40
- 2 Fleeing from Freedom: Sartre and Bad Faith 43
- Lying and bad faith 43
- The structure and choice of bad faith 44
- Disclosing bad faith through concrete examples 46
- Sincerity 49
- The failure of bad faith 53
- Good faith and the faith of bad faith 55
- Conversion and bad faith 56
- 3 Sartre, Alienation, and the Other 63
- Sartre on Hegel's theory of intersubjectivity 64
- The other and the ontological structure of consciousness 66
- The look as the primordial social relation 72
- Reacting to the other's look: shame and pride 74
- Interacting with the other: the 'we' and the role of language 76
- Conversion and social relations 78
- Conversion, language, and the 'we' 83
- Conclusion 87
- 4 Sartre, Group Formations, and Practical Freedom 91
- The early and later Sartre: radical rupture or continuity? 92
- The practico-inert and the other 93
- Seriality 96
- The group -in-fusion 98
- The organized group 101
- Institutions 106
- 5 Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit 110
- Hegel and phenomenology 110
- The method of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit 113
- Consciousness and the objective world 122
- The ontological development of consciousness 125
- Spirit 131
- Hegel and Sartre on freedom 136
- 6 Alienation and the Phenomenology of Spirit 143
- Alienation as estrangement 146
- Degrees of estrangement 148
- Alienation as externalization 149
- Consciousness's reaction to its self-externalization 153
- Concluding remarks 156
- 7 Hegel's Social Philosophy: Abstract Right and Morality 165
- The sociality of individual freedom 168
- Abstract right and private property 171
- Contract and its violation 173
- Morality 177
- Morality and the problem of evil 179
- 8 Realizing Freedom: Hegel and Ethical Life 183
- The ontological and ethical importance of family 188
- Familial property and the ethical role of children 194
- Civil society and individual need 198
- Civil society and the problem of poverty 204
- Cultures of poverty: honour and the rabble 207
- Breaking the rabble mentality 211
- Poverty and the community-orientated culture/ethic 213
- Culture and the public authority 216
- Culture, poverty, and the role of the corporation 219
- Culture, poverty, and consumerism 221
- Freedom and the state 224
- The constitution of Hegel's rational state 226
- Concluding remarks 230.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230314351
- 023031435X
- OCLC:
- 729342576
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