Circulating Being by Thomas Busch

Regular price
Checking stock...
Regular price
Checking stock...
Summary

Circulating Being centers on the later works of Camus, Marcel, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty to study the development of existential thinking about language, communicative life, ethics, and politics.

The feel-good place to buy books
  • Free US shipping over $15
  • Buying preloved emits 41% less CO2 than new
  • Millions of affordable books
  • Give your books a new home - sell them back to us!

Circulating Being by Thomas Busch

Existentialism has come to be identified as a critical, reactionary way of thinking, celebrating the individual, freedom, embodiment, and the limits of rationality and systematic theorizing. For the most part this assessment is true of the early and, by now, classical works of existentialism, those that first burst upon the philosophical and cultural scene. Circulating Being centers on the later works of several well-known French existentialists (Camus, Marcel, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty) to trace out the development of their existential thinking about language, communicative life, ethics, and politics. This development from embodiment to incorporation carries existentialism beyond identification with the mere reactionary and reveals how, while prefiguring postmodernism in important ways, the existential thinkers dealt with here reveal themselves to be reconstructive of the Western tradition. This is apparent in the growing appreciation of difference in their late works along with a reluctance to surrender the ideal of unity, and in their reappropriation of truth and justice while repudiating a totalizing metaphysics.
Thomas Busch is Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University
SKU Unavailable
ISBN 13 9780823219292
ISBN 10 0823219291
Title Circulating Being
Author Thomas Busch
Series Perspectives In Continental Philosophy
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Fordham University Press
Year published 1999-01-01
Number of pages 220
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.