TY - CHAP
T1 - Fight Club as Philosophy
T2 - I am Jack's Existential Struggle
AU - Oya , Alberto
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info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDP%2F00183%2F2020/PT#
UIDB/00183/2020
UIDP/00183/2020
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - The aim of this essay is to analyze the movie Fight Club, directed by David Fincher and written by Jim Uhls, and first released in the fall of 1999. The movie is based on the homonym novel by Chuck Palahniuk, published in 1996. I will argue that Fight Club is to be understood in purely existentialist, non-ethical, and non-evidential terms, showing the struggle felt by each and every one of us to find a convincing answer to the question of what (if any) counts as an authentic, worth living life. Moreover, I will argue that the movie does not merely illustrate the struggle and the existential angst it engenders, but it also advances if not strictly speaking a theoretical answer grounded in an indisputable philosophical reasoning, then at least a practical way to face it. It is only after positively endorsing the claim that absolutely nothing (whatever it may be) externally imposed on the subject can give ultimate meaning to their life is one free to engage in a conscious, laborious, and exhausting attempt at self-affirmation, a full and positive endorsement of one’s own singularity.
AB - The aim of this essay is to analyze the movie Fight Club, directed by David Fincher and written by Jim Uhls, and first released in the fall of 1999. The movie is based on the homonym novel by Chuck Palahniuk, published in 1996. I will argue that Fight Club is to be understood in purely existentialist, non-ethical, and non-evidential terms, showing the struggle felt by each and every one of us to find a convincing answer to the question of what (if any) counts as an authentic, worth living life. Moreover, I will argue that the movie does not merely illustrate the struggle and the existential angst it engenders, but it also advances if not strictly speaking a theoretical answer grounded in an indisputable philosophical reasoning, then at least a practical way to face it. It is only after positively endorsing the claim that absolutely nothing (whatever it may be) externally imposed on the subject can give ultimate meaning to their life is one free to engage in a conscious, laborious, and exhausting attempt at self-affirmation, a full and positive endorsement of one’s own singularity.
M3 - Chapter
T3 - Palgrave Science Fiction And Fantasy: A New Canon
SP - 1217
EP - 1234
BT - The Palgrave Handbook of Popular Culture as Philosophy
A2 - Kyle Johnson, David
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
CY - New York
ER -