Chuck Palahniuckas Fight Club Apropos of Sartreas Bad Faith and Camusas Calculated

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Chuck Palahniuckas Fight Club Apropos of Sartreas Bad Faith and Camusas Calculated

Dr. Richard E. Baker
Dr. Richard E. Baker Adams State University
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This essay explores the existential philosophy that exists in Chuck Palahniuck’s first novel, Fight Club (1996). Surprisingly, there has been little discussion of this novel’s connection to Jean-Paul Sartre’s notion of the look and the three patterns of bad faith in Being and Nothingness nor of Camus’s discussion of calculated culpability in The Just Assassins; this has largely been overlooked and presents a creative opportunity to better interpret Fight Club, its concomitant existential analysis, and the continuing fight between Camus and Sartre’s political stances, not to mention the interpretive territory of existentialist humor.

Chuck Palahniuckas Fight Club Apropos of Sartreas Bad Faith and Camusas Calculated

This essay explores the existential philosophy that exists in Chuck Palahniuck’s first novel, Fight Club (1996). Surprisingly, there has been little discussion of this novel’s connection to Jean-Paul Sartre’s notion of the look and the three patterns of bad faith in Being and Nothingness nor of Camus’s discussion of calculated culpability in The Just Assassins; this has largely been overlooked and presents a creative opportunity to better interpret Fight Club, its concomitant existential analysis, and the continuing fight between Camus and Sartre’s political stances, not to mention the interpretive territory of existentialist humor.

Dr. Richard E. Baker
Dr. Richard E. Baker Adams State University

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Dr. Richard E. Baker. 2014. “. Global Journal of Human-Social Science – A: Arts & Humanities GJHSS-A Volume 14 (GJHSS Volume 14 Issue A1): .

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Crossref Journal DOI 10.17406/GJHSS

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Chuck Palahniuckas Fight Club Apropos of Sartreas Bad Faith and Camusas Calculated

Dr. Richard E. Baker
Dr. Richard E. Baker Adams State University

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