Category: Continental Philosophy
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Freedom and Structure: Sartre’s Praxis as a Critique of Foucault’s Theory of Discourse
1. Introduction This essay compares and contrasts Foucault’s and Sartre’s approaches to understanding history, firstly by examining Foucault’s theory of discourse in his The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969) and Sartre’s concept of individual praxis from his Critique of Dialectical Reason (1960). While Sartre’s Critique was not a response to Foucault’s philosophy, as it was published almost a decade prior to Foucault’s Archaeology,…
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Why Has Being Become Manifest as a Burden? An Exploration of Anxiety in Being and Time
1. Introductions This essay explores Heidegger’s concept of anxiety in Being and Time and aims to seek clarification for its root cause while answering the question: Why has Being become manifest as a burden? (Heidegger, 1962, p. 173). Section 2 outlines the project of Being and Time, which provides the context for our exploration and…
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(Review) On a Judgment of One’s Own: Heideggerian Authenticity, Standpoints, and All Things Considered
McManus, D. (2019). On a Judgment of One’s Own: Heideggerian Authenticity, Standpoints, and All Things Considered. [Online]. 128 (512). pp. 1181–1204. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzx045. In this illuminating account of Heidegger’s notion of authenticity (Eigentlichkeit), McManus thoroughly explores Heidegger’s descriptions of authentic existence in Being and Time through an in-depth review of primary and secondary literature, including…
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Exploring Bergson’s Concept of Intuition: A Phenomenological Critique
1. Introduction This essay aims to explore Bergson’s concept of intuition in Time and Free Will, and compare it with ideas in phenomenology, particularly in Husserl and Heidegger. Section 2 provides the context for our exploration by discussing Bergson’s concept of consciousness as ‘duration’ (la durée), which is grasped by intuition, and section 3 delves…
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