1st Edition

Sartre's Anthropology as a Hermeneutics of Praxis

By Kristian Klockars Copyright 1998
229 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

229 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1998, this volume deals with the legacy of Sartre and functions as a way of going beyond Sartre by means of Sartre, aiming to understand how we are to understand what we ourselves do and how we are to understand human being and human reality. Kristian Klockars’ main aim is intended to communicate three questions: how close Sartre’s later anthropology comes to hermeneutics,... Read more

1. Introduction. 2. Sartre and Contemporary Thought: Understanding vs Totalisation. 3. The Project of Anthropology. 4. On Hermeneutics. 5. Sartre’s Conception of Human Being and Philosophical Standpoint. 6. A Critical Investigation of Reason. 7. Praxis and Social Theory. 8. The Quest for Understanding: Epistemology and Interpretation Theory. 9. The Normative Dimension of Sartre’s Anthropology. 10. Conclusions.

Biography

Kristian Klockars