Revolutionary Hope (eBook, ePUB)

Essays in Honor of William L. McBride
Redaktion: Jun, Nathan J.; Wahl, Shane

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Over the course of the last four decades, William Leon McBride has distinguished himself as a teacher, mentor, and scholar without peer. The author of seven books and more than two hundred book chapters, articles, and reviews, he is a world-renowned expert on the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre and a leader in the international community of philosophers. This volume-which celebrates the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday-includes contributions from colleagues, friends, and formers students. Together, they pay tribute to the intellectual, philosophical, and professional achievements of one of the most esteemed and accomplished scholars of his generation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739168912
• Artikelnr.: 38469511

Autorenporträt

Nathan Jun is assistant professor of philosophy and coordinator of the philosophy program at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas. He is the author of Anarchism and Political Modernity (2011) and the co-editor of Deleuze and Ethics (with Daniel W. Smith, 2011) and New Perspectives on Anarchism (with Shane Wahl, 2009). Shane Wahl is currently an instructor in philosophy at Ivy Tech Community College in Lafayette, Indiana, where he lives with his wife, Jennifer, and their son, Elliot. He is the co-editor of New Perspectives on Anarchism (with Nathan Jun, 2009) and is working on various articles on Nietzsche, Sartre, and anarchy.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: William L. McBridge and the Enduring Commitment to Intellectual
Freedom
Chapter 2: Intimations of a New Socioecological Imaginary
Chapter 3: William L. McBride: His Life and Works
Chapter 4: The Humanism of Jean-Paul Sartre
Chapter 5: A Philosopher's Journey: Philosophical Reflections For and On
Uncle Bill
Chapter 6: Friendship and Liberation: Paradoxes
Chapter 7: "Spaces of Freedom": Materiality, Mediation, and Direct
Political Participation in the Work of Sartre and Arendt
Chapter 8: The Consolations of Philosophy After 1989
Chapter 9: Sartre's Socialist Democracy and Global Feminism
Chapter 10: God, Creation, and Rebellion in Camus: Ambivalent?
Inconsistent? Or, Finally, Incoherent?
Chapter 11: 'Globalization' as Anti-Feminist Ideology: An Essay in Honor of
William L. McBride
Chapter 12: Toward a Transvaluation of the Doctrine of Human Rights
Chapter 13: Sartre and McBride: Overcoming the Spirit of Serious Through
Revolutionary Hope
About the Contributors
Index