Titlebook: Virtual Existentialism; Meaning and Subjecti Stefano Gualeni,Daniel Vella Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under

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Peter W. Zapffe and the Virtual Tragic,olation, anchoring, distraction, and sublimation. This chapter considers the extent to which our engagement with virtual environments can be understood in terms of each of Zapffe’s four categories, thereby building an examination of virtual environments as technologies to repress existential panic.

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Eugen Fink and Existential Play, explore unactualized dimensions of our being through the taking-on of a role in the playworld and presenting in some detail Fink’s treatment of the significance of the mask. This understanding of play is then used to offer a perspective on the relationships between one’s actual self and one’s roles in virtual environments.

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Virtual Subjectivities and the Existential Significance of Virtual Worlds,n of ‘virtual subjectivity’, to refer to the subjective sense of ‘self’ that relates to one’s being-in-the-virtual-world. It articulates a projectual understanding of subjectivity (according to which we strive towards the kind of being we wish to be) and proposes the term ‘virtual project’ for the e

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Jean-Paul Sartre and Escaping from Being-in-the-World,at the existential significance of the imagination lies in its giving us the capacity to surpass our being-in-the-world. On this basis, the chapter draws a line between virtual subjectivity and how Sartre’s frames the concept of imaginary consciousness, considering how our relationships with virtual

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