Palgrave Macmillan | Sartre, Nietzsche And Non-Humanist Existentialism (2020 EN)

Author: David Mitchell
Full Title: Sartre, Nietzsche And Non-Humanist Existentialism
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2020 edition (April 11, 2020)
Year: 2020
ISBN-13: 9783030431082 (978-3-030-43108-2), 9783030431075 (978-3-030-43107-5), 9783030431105 (978-3-030-43110-5)
ISBN-10: 3030431088, 303043107X, 303043110X
Pages: 192
Language: English
Genre: Philosophy: Existentialism
File type: PDF (True)
Quality: 10/10
Price: 80.24 €


This book argues that existentialism’s concern with human existence does not simply make it another form of humanism. Influenced by Heidegger’s 1947 ‘Letter on Humanism’, structuralist and post-structuralist critics have both argued that existentialism is synonymous with a naïve ‘humanist’ idea of the subject. Such identification has led to the movement’s 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.


Overview:
✓ Suggests how we can have a philosophy of human existence without the humanist subject
✓ Offers new and distinctive interpretations of Sartre and Nietzsche
✓ Provides a starting point for a revitalised and philosophically compelling existentialism

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