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Author Hayim, Gila

Title Existentialism and Sociology : Contribution of Jean-Paul Sartre
Published Milton : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (196 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; introduction to the Transaction edition; acknowledgment; introduction; chapter one. Freedom, anguish and bad faith; Existence; Human action and time in Sartre and Weber; Time and freedom: The existential experience of absence; Freedom and anguish; Anguish and the spirit of seriousness; Voluntarism and valuation in Sartre and Weber; The concept of bad faith; chapter two. Relationships with the other; The problem of identity in Mead and Sartre; The other in Hegel, Sartre and Mead; Master-slave relationship
The look: The objectification of self and otherIntimate relationships; chapter three. The existential theory of action; Existential psychology; The concept of the situation; Choice and the ethics of seriousness; Being, doing and having; Death and the spirit of seriousness; chapter four. Materiality and sociality; Introduction to the Critique; Sartre, Marx and the Marxists; The method; chapter five. The human group: serial and praxis groups; Serial group: The sociology of human inertia; The struggle against the practico-inert: The praxis group; Laing's use of Sartrean concepts
Chapter six. Opposition and identity: the individual and the groupThe organized group; Analytic rationality and synthetic rationality; Individual action and group action; Individual praxis as a model; Praxis and process; The group-for-the-other; chapter seven. The problem of authority; The sanctification of inertia; The acceptance of authority; The idea of the state; Common praxis as other-directedness; Bureaucracy; chapter eight. The recovery of human experience; Dialectical humanism; On human struggle: Concluding remarks; index
Summary "Existentialism and Sociology (originally published under the title The Existential Sociology of Jean-Paul Sartre) is the first work to systematically and critically analyze the existential ideas of Jean-Paul Sartre and to demonstrate their importance and connection to central sociological categories found in the theories of Weber, Durkheim, Freud, Mead, and others. Drawing also on sociological and Hegelian social thought, Hayim analyzes key existential concepts of negation, temporality, choice, anguish, and bad faith, and carefully situates them in the different relations of self to the other--relations of indifference and destruction, as well as relations of engagement and pledge. She joins the two orders of being--ontology and sociology--and establishes intellectual and ethical continuity between the phenomenology of Being and Nothingness, Sartre's momentous early work, and neglected sociological categories in his later works: Critique of Dialectical Reason and Notebooks for an Ethics. Hayim makes accessible to the social scientist a rich repertoire of existential motifs and perspectives on community and group interactions and their inextricable bond to the life practice of the individual. Distinguishing among social groups as different orders of social consciousness and organization, Hayim addresses issues of transcendence and inertia, leadership and authority, freedom and bondage, bureaucracy and control, and identifies Sartre's concept of the practico-inert as the radical center of our intersubjectivity today, and its threat to human intelligibility. The author contends that the massive language of a sociology of things instills in the human actor a feeling of helplessness and gross inferiority vis-a-vis the social world. She offers, in contrast, the existential emphasis on the importance of substituting live human experience for mechanistic processes of explanation, and of establishing"--Provided by publisher
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Subject Existentialism.
Sociology -- Philosophy.
Existentialism
existentialism.
Existentialism
Sociology -- Philosophy
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781351521161
1351521160