Realizing Freedom: Hegel, Sartre and the Alienation of Human Being [electronic resource] /
Rae, G.author.
A first in English, this book engages with the ways in which Hegel and Sartre answer the difficult questions: What is it to be human? What place do we have in the world? How should we live? What can we be?
Cover; Half title; Title; Contents; List of Abbreviations of Works Cited; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; The importance of alienation for Hegel and Sartre; Structure and method of the work; 1. Sartre's Existential Ontology; The purpose and status of Being and Nothingness; The ontological characteristics of being-for-itself; The ontological characteristics of being-in-itself; Facticity; Freedom; The universal value and the fundamental project; Conversion and the desire to be God; Conclusion; 2. Fleeing from Freedom: Sartre and Bad Faith; Lying and bad faith
The structure and choice of bad faithDisclosing bad faith through concrete examples; Sincerity; The failure of bad faith; Good faith and the faith of bad faith; Conversion and bad faith; 3. Sartre, Alienation, and the Other; Sartre on Hegel's theory of intersubjectivity; The other and the ontological structure of consciousness; The look as the primordial social relation; Reacting to the other's look: shame and pride; Interacting with the other: the 'we' and the role of language; Conversion and social relations; Conversion, language, and the 'we'; Conclusion
4. Sartre, Group Formations, and Practical FreedomThe early and later Sartre: radical rupture or continuity?; The practico-inert and the other; Seriality; The group-in-fusion; The organized group; Institutions; 5. Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit; Hegel and phenomenology; The method of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit; Consciousness and the objective world; The ontological development of consciousness; Spirit; Hegel and Sartre on freedom; 6. Alienation and the Phenomenology of Spirit; Alienation as estrangement; Degrees of estrangement; Alienation as externalization
Consciousness's reaction to its self-externalizationConcluding remarks; 7. Hegel's Social Philosophy: Abstract Right and Morality; The sociality of individual freedom; Abstract right and private property; Contract and its violation; Morality; Morality and the problem of evil; 8. Realizing Freedom: Hegel and Ethical Life; The ontological and ethical importance of family; Familial property and the ethical role of children; Civil society and individual need; Civil society and the problem of poverty; Cultures of poverty: honour and the rabble; Breaking the rabble mentality
Poverty and the community-orientated culture/ethicCulture and the public authority; Culture, poverty, and the role of the corporation; Culture, poverty, and consumerism; Freedom and the state; The constitution of Hegel's rational state; Concluding remarks; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes index.
A first in English, this book engages with the ways in which Hegel and Sartre answer the difficult questions: What is it to be human? What place do we have in the world? How should we live? What can we be?
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980.
Philosophy.
Political philosophy.
Social sciences—Philosophy.
Philosophy of mind.
Movement (Philosophy).
Political science.
History of Philosophy.
Political Philosophy.
Social Philosophy.
Philosophy of Mind.
Philosophical Traditions.
Political Science and International Relations, general.