The Crowd Is Untruth: The Existential Critique of Mass Society in the Thought of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Ortega Y Gasset - Couverture rigide

Tuttle, Howard N.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0820428663 ISBN 13 : 9780820428666

Editeur : Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2004

Synopsis

This book argues that the mass is the most characteristic socio-historical feature of our century. Kierkegaard was the first to anticipate and delineate this phenomenon philosophically. Heidegger appropriated much from Kierkegaard, but recast the mass into the fundamental ontology of Das Man. Moreover, his work was informed by Nietzsche's understanding of nihilism and the will of power. Finally, the masses are considered from the vision of Ortega y Gasset's philosophy of human life. This book relates all four of these thinkers into a philosophical perspective upon the nature of the mass.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

The Author: Howard N. Tuttle is Professor of philosophy at the University of New Mexico. He received advanced degrees from Harvard University, the University of Vienna, and his Ph.D. in the history of philosophy from Brandeis University. He is the author of Wilhelm Dilthey's Philosophy of Historical Understanding and The Dawn of Historical Reason: The Historicality of Human Existence in the Thought of Dilthey, Heidegger, and Ortega y Gasset.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0820428663
• ISBN 13: 9780820428666
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 210
• Coordonnées du fabricant: r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; ; Gontardstraße 11; Berlin; 10178; Allemagne