| Description |
xii, 412 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge companions to philosophy |
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Cambridge companions to philosophy.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-406) and index. |
| Summary |
Existentialism exerts a continuing fascination on students of philosophy and general readers. As a philosophical phenomenon, though, it is often poorly understood, as a form of radical subjectivism that turns its back on reason and argumentation and possesses all the liabilities of philosophical idealism but without any idealistic conceptual clarity. In this volume of original essays, a team of commentators discuss the ideas of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and Beauvoir and show how their focus on existence provides a compelling perspective on contemporary issues in moral psychology and philosophy of mind, language and history. A further sequence of chapters examines the influence of existential ideas beyond philosophy, in literature, religion, politics and psychiatry. The volume offers an assessment of the continuing vitality of existentialism as a philosophical movement and a cultural phenomenon. |
| Contents |
Existentialism and its legacy / Steven Crowell -- Existentialism in Historical Perspective. -- Existentialism as a philosophical movement / David E. Cooper -- Existentialism as a cultural movement / William McBride. -- Major Existentialist Philosophers. -- Kierkegaard's single individual and the point of indirect communication / Alastair Hannay -- 'What a monster then is man" : Pascal and Kierkegaard on being a contradictory self and what to do about it / Hubert L. Dreyfus -- Nietzsche: after the death of God / Richard Schacht -- Nietzsche: selfhood, creativity, and philosophy / Lawrence J. Hatab -- Heidegger: the existential analytic of Dasein / William Blattner -- The antinomy of being: Heidegger's critique of humanism / Karsten Harries -- Sartre's existentialism and the nature of consciousness / Steven Crowell -- Political existentialism: the career of Sartre's political thought / Thomas R. Flynn -- Simone de Beauvoir's existentialism: freedom and ambiguity in the human world / Kristana Arp -- Merleau-Ponty on body, flesh, and visibility / Taylor Carman. -- The Reach of Existential Philosophy. -- Existentialism as literature / Jeff Malpas -- Existentialism and religion / Merold Westphal -- Racism is a system: how existentialism became dialectical in Fanon and Sartre / Robert Bernasconi -- Existential phenomenology, psychiatric illness, and the death of possibilities / Matthew Ratcliffe and Matthew Broome. |
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Existentialism.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Existentialism. (OCoLC)fst00918204
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Existentialism.
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| Added Author |
Crowell, Steven Galt, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780521513340 (hardback) |
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0521513340 (hardback) |
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9780521732789 (paperback) |
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0521732786 (paperback) |
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