Sartre, Nietzsche and non-humanist existentialism / David Mitchell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mitchell, David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980.

Sartre, Jean-Paul.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Existentialism.

Humanism.

Physical Description:

ix, 192 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]

Summary:

This book argues that existentialisms concern with human existence does not simply make it another form of humanism. Influenced by Heideggers 1947 'Letter on Humanism, structuralist and post-structuralist critics have both argued that existentialism is synonymous with a naèive 'humanist idea of the subject. Such identification has led to the movements dismissal as a credible philosophy; this book aims to challenge such a view. Through a lucid and thought-provoking exploration of the concept of perversity in Sartre and Nietzsche, Mitchell argues that understanding the human as a 'perversion of something other than itself allows us to have a philosophy of the human without the humanist subject. In short, through perversion, we can talk about the human as not merely having a relation to the world, but of being that relation. With an explicit defence of Sartre against the charge of humanism, accompanied by a novel and distinctive reinterpretation of Nietzsche, Mitchell recovers an existentialism that is at once both radical and philosophically relevant.

Contents:

1. Introduction: Existentialism and Humanism

2. Nietzsche's Non-humanist Existentialism: Perversity and Genealogy

3. Nietzsche's Non-humanist Existentialism: Secondary Perversion and the Slave Revolt

4. Sartre, Nothingness and Perversity

5. Sartre, Perversity and Self-Evasion

6. Sartre, Perversity and Self-Deception.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783030431075

303043107X

OCLC:

1141153233