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Jeffrey Bell argues that a motivating problematic for existentialist writers is the attempt to think through the implications of the problematic nature of life. He applies a Deleuzian theory of problems to an analysis of some key concepts in contemporary social and political theory. Building on the metaphysics of problems set out in his book, An Inquiry into Analytic-Continental Metaphysics, he provides a new way of integrating the concerns of existentialist writers into contemporary political and social debates
Contents
Introduction
§1 Making Sense of Life
Signs of Jealousy
...to be undermined
Hume and delirium
Making sense and problems
Making Sense of God
Spinoza and the 'inmost essence' of God
The ultimate elements of nature
Making sense of things
Matters of Taste
The truth one deserves
Hume's "Of the Standard of Taste"
Constructing problems
§2 Communication Problems
Signal-sign systemsInformation theory
Signal-sign systems (with excursus on ethology)
Making Sense of Stories
Political narrative
To think against one's will
Plato on contradictory perceptions
Coping with loss (Plato, Stoics, Spinoza)
Authenticity (Heidegger)
§3 Making Sense of Politics
Arbitrary Power
Forced narratives
Making sense of capital
Challenging Narratives
Good faith/bad faith narratives
Conspiracy theories
§4 Stop Making Sense
Existentialism Revisited
Kierkegaard and infinite difference
Sartre on bad faith
Camus and metaphysical rebellion
Facts and Fictions
Finding one's way
Adorno and critical existentialism
§5 Towards a Critical Existentialism
A Sense of Place
Justified murder
Wayfinding
...à fond perdu
Pure Market Illusions
A family affair
Hume and improvement
"...but it is legal."
Critical existentialism
Freedom
Law
Progress
Conclusion
Bibliography
