Forms of Life and Subjectivity: Rethinking Sartre’s Philosophy
 explores the fundamental question of why we act as we do. Informed by 
an ontological and phenomenological approach, and building mainly, but 
not exclusively, on the thought of Sartre, Daniel Rueda Garrido 
considers the concept of a "form of life” as a term that bridges the gap
 between subjective identity and communities.





 
	
	
	
	
	
	





This first systematic ontology of "forms of life” 
seeks to understand why we act in certain ways, and why we cling to 
certain identities, such as nationalisms, social movements, cultural 
minorities, racism, or religion. The answer, as Rueda Garrido argues, 
depends on an understanding of ourselves as "forms of life” that remains
 sensitive to the relationship between ontology and power, between what 
we want to be and what we ought to be. 
	
	
	
	
	
	





 
	
	
	
	
	
	





Structured in seven chapters, Rueda Garrido’s 
investigation yields illuminating and timely discussions of conversion, 
the constitution of subjectivity as an intersubjective self, the 
distinction between imitation and reproduction, the relationship between
 freedom and facticity, and the dialectical process by which two 
particular ways of being and acting enter into a situation of 
assimilation-resistance, as exemplified by capitalist and artistic forms
 of life.





 
	
	
	
	
	
	






	
	
	
	
	
	This ambitious and original work will be of great 
interest to scholars and students of philosophy, social sciences, 
cultural studies, psychology and anthropology. Its wide-ranging 
reflection on the human being and society will also appeal to the 
general reader of philosophy.

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