Force Inside Identity: Self and Other in Améry’s “On the Necessity and Impossibility of Being a Jew”
In a statement too strong even to summarize his own views, Jean-Paul Sartre famously declares in “Existentialism is a Humanism” that “man is nothing other than what he makes of himself.” It is bad faith, according to him, to attribute what I am to my family, culture, condition, etc., because through...
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University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
2017-02-01
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Series: | Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy |
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Online Access: | http://jffp.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jffp/article/view/794 |