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Sartre, Foucault, and Historical Reason, 1 : Toward an Existentialist Theory of History.
Sartre and Foucault were two of the most prominent and at times mutually antagonistic philosophical figures of the twentieth century. And nowhere are the antithetical natures of their existentialist and poststructuralist philosophies more apparent than in their disparate approaches to historical und...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1997.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | Sartre and Foucault were two of the most prominent and at times mutually antagonistic philosophical figures of the twentieth century. And nowhere are the antithetical natures of their existentialist and poststructuralist philosophies more apparent than in their disparate approaches to historical understanding. A history, thought Foucault, should be a kind of map, a comparative charting of structural transformations and displacements. But for Sartre, authentic historical understanding demanded a much more personal and committed narrative, a kind of interpretive diary of moral choices and risks. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (359 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780226254692 0226254690 |