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xviii, 456 pages 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-445). |
| Contents |
Chapter 1: Existentialism: definition -- 1. Preliminary remarks -- 2. Two types of existentialism -- 3. Contemporary existentialism: preliminary division -- A. Theistic and atheistic existentialism -- 4. Definitions -- 5. Themes of existentialism -- Chapter 2: Soren Kierkegaard -- Life -- 1. Early years -- 2. Regina Olsen -- 3. Incident of the corsair -- Thought -- 1. The three stages -- A. Aesthetic stage -- i. Don Juan -- ii. Faust -- iii. Ahasuerus -- B. Ethical stage -- C. Religious stage -- i. Religiousness "A" and Religiousness "B" -- 2. Hegelian abstractionism -- 3. Subjectivity versus objectivity -- 4. The ethical -- 5. Philosophy versus religion -- 6. Faith versus reason -- 7. The absurd as object of faith -- 8. Reason as aid to faith -- A. Possibility of apologetics -- B. Possibility of theology: reason and faith -- 9. Christianity versus Christendom -- 10. Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Gabriel Marcel -- Life -- 1. Early years -- 2. Conversion -- 3. Drama -- 4. Music -- Thought -- 1. Repudiation of idealism -- 2. Neo-socratism -- 3. Problem versus mystery: first and second reflection -- 4. Incarnation -- 5. I-thou -- 6. Presence, encounter, intersubjectivity -- 7. Disponibility and indisponibility -- 8. Absolute thou and fidelity -- 9. Faith, hope, love -- A. Faith -- B. Hope -- C. Love -- 10. Broken world, functionalization, dehumanization -- 11. Totalitarian state -- 12. Existence of God -- 13. Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Martin Buber -- Life -- 1. Early years -- 2. Study of Hasidism -- 3. Intellectual pursuits -- Thought -- 1. Hasidism -- A. Baal-Shem-Tov -- B. The Zaddik -- 2. Individualism, collectivism and community -- 3. The between -- 4. I and thou -- 5. I-it world -- 6. The eternal thou -- 7. Conclusion -- Chapter 5. Martin Heidegger -- Life -- Early education -- 2. Husserl and phenomenology -- 3. Political activity -- 4. Post-war exile -- Thought -- 1. Neologisms and linguistic peculiarities -- 2. Existentialist or ontologist -- 3. Analysis of being and time -- A. The being of beings -- B. Dasein as starting point -- C. Ontology and phenomenology -- D. Dasein as being-in-the-world -- i. Being in -- ii. The world -- iii. The who or self -- E. Mit-sein or co-dasein -- F. Modes of Dasein -- i. Self-awareness -- a. Throwness -- b. Facticity -- ii. Understanding -- iii. Discourse -- G. Inauthentic and authentic existence -- H. Inauthenticity and das man -- I. Fallenness -- J. Authentic existence -- K. Fear -- L. Dread -- M. Death, being-to-death -- N. Conscience and authentic existence -- O. Care -- P. Possibility -- Q. Facticity -- R. Summary -- S. Temporality -- T. Heideggerian Time -- i. The future -- ii. The "having been" -- iii. The present -- U. Historicity -- V. Nothingness -- i. Unitariness -- ii. Mood versus reason -- iii. Dread and nothingness -- 4. Heidegger II (The later Heidegger) -- A. Failure of Metaphysics -- B. Holderlin and poetic thought -- C. Friedrich Holderlin -- D. Poetry and waiting for God -- E. Theism and atheism -- Chapter 4: Jean Paul Sartre -- Life -- 1. Early years -- 2. World war II -- 3. Simone de Beauvoir -- Thought -- 1. Philosophical Influences -- 2. Postulatory Aethism and its consequences -- 3. Being for-itself and being in-itself -- A. Being for-itself -- B. Existence preceding essence -- C. Being in-itself -- 4. Being for-itself-in-itself -- 5. For-itself-in-itself as God -- 6. Being for-another -- A. The park: fear -- B. The keyhole: shame -- C. Conflict as basis for being for-others -- D. Human love as conflict -- E. Masochism and sadism -- i. Masochism -- ii. Desire -- iii. Sadism -- iv. Hate -- 7. To freedom condemned -- A. Man as freedom -- B. Inventor of values -- C. Anguish -- D. Bad faith -- E. Ethical implications of freedom -- 8. Evaluation of Sartrean ethics -- 9. Conclusion -- Chapter 7: Albert Camus -- Life -- 1. Early years -- 2. Tuberculosis -- 3. Resistance -- 4. Theatre -- Thought -- 1. Algerian neopaganism and beauties of nature -- 2. Stage 1: The absurd -- A. Contributing factors -- i. Science -- ii. Monotomy of life -- iii. Time -- iv. World -- v. Inhumanity -- vi. Death -- B. The triad: human nostalgia, the irrational, the absurd -- C. Physical suicide -- D. Philosophical suicide -- E. Revolt -- F. Freedom -- G. Quantitative ethics and passion -- i. Sisyphus -- ii. Meursault -- 3. Stage 2: Rebellion and moderation -- A. Letters to a german friend -- B. The rebel -- D. Metaphysical rebellion -- E. Historical rebellion -- 4. Stage 3: Repentance? -- 5. Conclusion. |
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Existentialism.
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Existentialism. (OCoLC)fst00918204
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Existenzialismus (DE-588)4121232-0
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| ISBN |
081890285X |
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9780818902857 |
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0818903406 |
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9780818903403 |
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