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Dec 23, 2021 · Broadly speaking, their approach is based on a critical and creative synthesis of influential traditions of thought: at the philosophical level, existentialism and phenomenology; and, at the sociological level, both micro- and macro-perspectives, including interpretive sociology, existentialist sociology, and ethnomethodology as well as ...
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Dec 23, 2021 · ‘Existence theory’ is at root a ‘theory of social behaviour that centres around the temporality of existence in society’ (p. 8). A central contention is that ‘people have the ability to reflect on their lives as a perceived whole from the perspective of projected trajectories – that is, they can and sometimes do conceive of their personal biographies as “accomplished projects.”
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Jul 14, 2021 · In this article, I reassess existential constructs in light of the effects of neoliberalism on subjectivity and discuss how existentialism can operate in this context. In this way, I hope to avoid a problem-solution dichotomy. To be clear, I do not propose a solution to suffering through the reassessment of existential ideas.
- Patric Plesa
- 2021
Existentialism is the study of existence. If you take existence to be everything that exists — such as chairs and tables, people and llamas — all philosophy, science, and religion would seem to have the same subject. But existentialism isn’t the study of everything that exists; it’s the study of exis-tence itself — the study of what ...
Aug 12, 2022 · For existentialism, the challenge becomes to live a life that is authentic or one’s own. It would, however, be a mistake to exclude external forces. According to Heidegger, we are “being-in-the-world.” The dashes have a significant meaning here: for a human being to be means to be in the world.
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Abstract. This chapter argues that existentialism, as this book has articulated it, has the potential to make significant contributions to moral thought, philosophy of mind, social psychology, and psychotherapy, and that sophisticated engagements with these areas of inquiry should in turn refine existentialism.
Oct 2, 2021 · The thematic approach adopted here is unusual but by no means unique. Another, and in many ways excellent, example is David Cooper’s Existentialism:A Reconstruction.We have some topics in common, such as freedom and anxiety; but I have to cover various other aspects that are important for the Christian existentialist and not necessarily so for the agnostic or atheistic existentialist.
