SOCI 2660 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Fallacy, Martin Heidegger, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
3 Nov 2016
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*not the irrational man - about talk about man as a species not a man. William barrett - (cid:498))rrational man(cid:499) & an )ntroduction to existentialism. )t had long been an idea in europe but wasn"t a thing in n. america. The book is in between an academic text and a popular text (cid:523)in the sense that it"s. Not a novel - it is a text: published in 1958 (height of the cold war) Its purpose was to introduce existentialism to a north american audience. This text is a critique of rational man; it shows the limitations and contradictions written for the average person) of rational thinking/man; For the greeks, the pursuit of knowledge/wisdom were seen as the highest pursuit of man; thus the capacity to reason was revered. This comes apart in the middle of the 19th century/beginning of 20th century with kirkengaard- development of a new kind of philosophical thinking (cf.
