Contents
Acknowledgement
Preface
Introduction
1. Sartre’s Dichotomies
2. Forms of Life
3. Cultural Phenomenology
4. The Phenomenological Ontology of Forms of Life
5. Outline of the Argument
1. The Phenomenological Ontology of Forms of Life
1. Introduction
2. Form of Life and the Principle of the Series
3. Actions: Being and Meaning
4. The Image as a Synthetic Unit
5. Praxical and Anthropical Images
6. Form of Life and New Realism’s Ontology: A Discussion
7. Conclusion: Form of Life as Being-in-Itself-for-Itself
2. Forms of Life and Ontological Conversion
1. Introduction
2. The Onto-Phenomenological Structure of Conversion
3. Conversion and the Constitution of Subjectivity
4. Conversion, Subjectivity and the Other
5. Ontological Conversion vs. Rites of Passage
6. Conclusion
3. Habits, Identification and Forms of Life
1. Introduction
2. Actions and Habits
3. Habits and Form of Life
4. Conclusion: Habits vs. Routines, Skills and Motor Responses
4. Forms of Life, Imitation and Conscious Will
1. Introduction
2. Perception-Behaviour Link: The Starting Point
3. Conscious Will and Perception: A Compatibilist Approach
3.1. Sourcehood Principle
3.2. Analysis of Sartorio’s Compatibilist Account
3.3. Sourcehood Principle vs. Alternative Possibilities
3.4. Sourcehood Principle: Anthropical Image and Perceptual Stimuli
4. Form of Life, Conscious Will and Social Conditioning
4.1. Conscious Will vs. Determinism
4.2. Social Conditioning and Agents’ Freedom
4.3. Social Conditioning: Motivated and Unmotivated Actions
4.4. Social Conditioning and Deadlock: Random Behaviour
5. Conclusion
5. Dialectics, Forms of Life and Subjectivity
1. Introduction
2. Sartre’s Dialectic
3. Rethinking Sartre’s Dialectic
4. Subjectivity and the Struggle between Forms of Life
5. The Dialectical Structure of a Form of Life
6. Conclusion
6. The Capitalist Form of Life and its Subjectivity
1. Introduction
2. The Ontological Principle of the Capitalist Form of Life
3. Dialectical Process towards Maximization of Economic Profit
3.1. The Negation of the Agricultural Life or the Austere Form of Life
3.2. The Negation of the Workers: The Rule of the Owners
3.3. The Negation of the Aristocrats and the Consolidation of the Middle Class
3.4. The Mass Society and the Intellectuals
4. The Dialectical Process towards Reification
4.1. Moments of Reification in the Era of Neoliberal Capitalism
5. Maximization through Reification: The Internal Contradiction of Capitalist Subjectivity
6. Conclusion
7. Forms of Life and Subjectivities of Other Communities in the Capitalist Era
1. Forms of Life, Communities and Social Classes
2. Baudelaire, the Artistic Form of Life and its Subjectivity
2.1. Baudelaire and the Artistic Form of Life
2.2. Ideal and Spleen: The Subjectivity of the Poet
3. Artistic Form of Life, Power and Resistance under Capitalism
4. Conclusion
Conclusion
1.With Sartre beyond Sartre
2. Phenomenological Ontology and Subjectivity
3. In Dialogue with Contemporary Philosophy
4. What Next?
Bibliography
Index
About the Team