To a critical situationism

Authors

  • Dag Østerberg

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13130/2239-5474/4416

Keywords:

Project, Facticity, Relationship, Freedom, Alienation, Unveiling, Constitution, Practical-inert field, transcendental logic, anonymous social relations

Abstract

Jean-Paul Sartre's philosophy, in L'être et le néant and in Critique de la raison dialectique, still maintains its validity as a reflection on our located liberty. However, we must criticize - in both senses of limiting it and correct it - on two points: 1) Sartre’s interpretation of matter and natural sciences seems like the interpretation given by logical positivists (Wienerkreis et al.); 2) social relations, analyzed by Sartre in a deep and convincing way, neglect or ignore more fundamental and anonymous social relations, which are necessary to account. The contributions of the neo-Kantian Marburg school, particularly those of Ernest Cassirer, can rectify the Sartrean philosophy, turning it into a critical situationism.

Published

2014-10-29

Issue

Section

Researches - The complexity theory