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The Routledge International Handbook of Existential Human Science / edited by Huon Wardle, Nigel Rapport, and Albert Piette.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge international handbooks.
- Routledge International Handbooks Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anthroposophy--History.
- Anthroposophy.
- Social sciences--History.
- Social sciences.
- Existential psychology.
- Existentialism.
- Individuality.
- Research--Methodology.
- Research.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (316 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, [2024]
- Summary:
- This volume is the first handbook to explore existentialism as epistemology and method. Trans-disciplinary in scope, it considers the nature of human subjectivity and how human experience ought to be studied, examining the connections that exist between the individual's imagining of the world and their everyday practice within it.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- 1. General introduction: The Routledge Handbook of Existential Human Science
- SECTION I: The Existential Perspective Across the Disciplines
- 2. Introduction
- 3. Existential sociology
- 4. Existential psychology
- 5. Anthropology as an existential enquiry
- 6. Existential psychiatry and psychotherapy
- 7. Existentiality and semiotics - are they compatible?
- 8. A Contested Legacy: Kant and existentialism
- SECTION II: Interiority, Selfhood and Integrity: The Individual as regards the Social
- 9. Section II: Introduction
- 10. Unsociable sociability
- 11. Internal conversation: Interiority and individuality
- 12. Relational, but also singular: On the varieties and particularities of selfscapes
- 13. The ballad (or fugue) of William Cullum: Disciplining the body of prisoner 55552-052
- 14. The car driver's being: A different direction to the auto-ontological turn
- 15. Existentialism and tango social dance: The anthropology of (moving) events
- SECTION III: Intersubjectivity: Care for and Faith in the Other
- 16. Section III: Introduction
- 17. Existential care ethics
- 18. Faith and the existential
- 19. Existence against being
- 20. (In)dividual lives and existential narratives
- 21. Existential finitude in Indian Buddhist philosophy
- 22. Exploring the relationship between language and empathy: Some unexpected connections
- SECTION IV: Singularity and Continuity
- 23. Section IV: Introduction
- 24. The loss of singular existence and personal experience: The problem of interchangeability in the social sciences
- 25. Sartrean existentialism and existential art
- 26. Volumology as existential anthropology
- 27. An empirical approach to studying human existence
- 28. Filming and describing an individual
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781003156697
- 100315669X
- 9781000916225
- 1000916227
- 9781000916263
- 100091626X
- OCLC:
- 1382692859
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