Towards a Critical Existentialism: Truth, Relevance and Politics

ISBN-13: 9781399508322 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 264 str.

Jeffrey Bell

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Acknowledgements; Introduction; §1 Making Sense of Life; Signs of Jealousy; …to be undermined; Hume and delirium; Making sense and problems; Making Sense of God; Spinoza and the ‘inmost essence’ of God; The ultimate elements of nature; Making sense of things; Matters of Taste; The truth one deserves; Hume’s “Of the Standard of Taste”; Constructing problems; §2 Communication Problems; Signal-sign systems; Information theory; Signal-sign systems (with excursus on ethology); Making Sense of Stories; Political narrative; To think against one’s will; Plato on contradictory perceptions; Coping with loss (Plato, Stoics, Spinoza); Authenticity (Heidegger); §3 Making Sense of Politics; Arbitrary Power; Forced narratives; Making sense of capital; Challenging Narratives; Good faith/bad faith narratives; Conspiracy theories; §4 Stop Making Sense; Existentialism Revisited; Kierkegaard and infinite difference; Sartre on bad faith; Camus and metaphysical rebellion; Facts and Fictions; Finding one’s way; Adorno and critical existentialism 190; ; §5 Towards a Critical Existentialism; A Sense of Place; Justified murder; Wayfinding; …à fond perdu; Pure Market Illusions; A family affair; Hume and improvement; “…but it is legal.”; Critical existentialism; Freedom; Law; Progress; Conclusion; Bibliography.