The human bare life and ways of life / John Lechte, Macquarie University, Australia.

Author/creator Lechte, John
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
Description255 pages ; 24 cm
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Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- 2. Consumer Society and Necessity -- 3. Rethinking Arendt's Theory of Necessity and Freedom: The Ordinary as Extraordinary -- 4. Approaching the Human and Freedom -- 5. Sovereignty and Heterology in Georges Bataille's Version of Necessity and Freedom -- 6. Humans and Animals: Way of Life as Transcendence -- 7. The Moment of Death -- 8. The Human as Technics: Technicity and `Way of Life' -- 9. Levinas, the Absolute Other, and Humanness -- 10. Ways of Life -- Not Bare Life: Being as Acting.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Issued in other formebook version : 9781350028159
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2018289603
ISBN9781350028135

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