Existentialist Ontology and Human Consciousness / Edition 1

by William L. McBride

Overview

Existentialist Ontology and Human Consciousness
The majority of the distinguished scholarly articles in this volume focus on Sartre's early philosophical work, which dealt first with imagination and the emotions, then with the critique of Husserl's notion of a transcendental ego, and finally with systematic ontology presented in his best-known book, Being and Nothingness. In addition, since his preoccupation with ontological questions and especially with the meanings of ego, self, and consciousness endured throughout his career, other essays discuss these themes in light of later developments both in Sartre's own thought and in the phenomenological, hermeneutic, and analytic traditions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815324942
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/01/1996
Series:	Sartre and Existentialism: Philosophy, Politics, Ethics, the Psyche, Literature, and Aesthetics , #4
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

William L. McBride Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University, is co-founder of the North American Sartre Society, and the first chairperson of its executive board. His most recent publications include Social and Political Philosophy and Sartre's Political Theory. He was recently named Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques by the French Government, and has served as Chairperson of the Committee on International Cooperation of the American Philosophical Association and as President of the Societe Americaine de Philosophie de Langue Francaise.