Toward an Existentialist Theory of History

Name: Toward an Existentialist Theory of History
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ISBN: 9780226254685

ISBN-10: 0226254682

ISBN-13: 9780226254685

Edition: 1997

Authors: Thomas R. Flynn

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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 compelled by critical necessity and an exacting reality. Sartre's history, a rational history of…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 9/2/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 356
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Preface: The Diary and the Map


Acknowledgements


Works Frequently Cited






Living History: The Risk of Choice and the Pinch of the Real



The Dawning of a Theory of History



Dialectic of Historical Understanding



History as Fact and as Value Conclusion to Part One






History Has Its Reasons



TheSensof History:Discovery



History and Biography:Critique 2



Biography and History:The Family Idiot Conclusion to Part Two






Sartre and the Poetics of History: The Historian as Dramaturge



History and Structure: Sartre and Foucault Conclusion to Volume One


Notes


Index