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The Cambridge Companion to Existentialism

By Steven Crowell

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2012
ISBN
0521732786, 9780521732789
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3047054 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
Pages
xii+416\429
Time added
2018-05-08 20:24:34
Modern;Philosophy;Politics & Social Sciences;Exist

Description

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, the first to be devoted exclusively to existentialism in over forty years, a team of distinguished 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 a rich and comprehensive assessment of the continuing vitality of existentialism as a philosophical movement and a cultural phenomenon.

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