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Existentialism / Robert C. Solomon, [editor].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xx, 379 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0195174631 (pbk.)
  • 9780195174632 (pbk.)
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Contents:
Søren Kierkegaard: From The present age ; From The Journals ; The rotation method (From Either/or) ; Is there such a thing as a teleological suspension of the ethical? (From Fear and trembling and the sickness unto death) ; Truth is subjectivity (From Concluding unscientific postscript) ; On becoming a Christian -- Ivan Turgenev: From Fathers and sons -- Feodor Dostoevsky: From Notes From underground -- Friedrich Nietzsche: From The joyful wisdom ; From Thus spoke Zarathustra ; From Beyond good and evil ; From The genealogy of moral ; From Twilight of the idols ; On truth ; On the will to power ; On eternal recurrence -- Hermann Hesse: From Steppenwolf -- Martin Heidegger: From Being and time ; The fundamental question of metaphysics (From Introduction to metaphysics) ; From Discourse on thinking -- Gabriel Marcel: What is a free man? (From Man against mass society) -- Karl Jaspers: Existenz (From Philosophy) ; Freedom (From Philosophy) ; Moral guilt (From The question of German guilt) -- Franz Kafka: Couriers (From Paracles and paradoxes) ; Before the law (From The penal colony) -- Andre Gide: Edouard's journal (From The counterfeiters) -- Albert Camus: From The stranger ; From The myth of Sisyphus ; From The fall ; From "Albert Camus" by Jean-Paul Sartre -- Jean-Paul Sartre: From Existentialism is a humanism ; From Nausea ; Patterns of bad faith (from Being and nothingness) ; From No exit ; Freedom and responsibility (from Being and nothingness) ; From The flies ; From The age of reason ; From St. Genet: actor and martyr ; Marxism and existentialism (from Search for a method) -- Maurice Merleau-Ponty: From "Merleau-Ponty" by Jean-Paul Sartre ; Prospectus (A report to the Collège de France) ; Freedom (from The phenomenology of perception) ; From Humanism and terror -- Simone de Beauvoir: From The ethics of ambiguity ; From The second sex -- Paul Ricoeur: Motive and value (from The voluntary and the involuntary) -- Nikolai Berdyaev: From The destiny of man -- Martin Buber: From I and thou -- Paul Tillich: From The courage to be -- Harold Pinter: From The dwarfs -- Samuel Beckett: Act without words -- Norman Mailer: From "The white negro" (from Advertisements for myself) -- R.D. Laing: Self consciousness (from The divided self) -- Saul Bellow: From Dangling man -- John Barth: From The end of the road -- Peter Weiss: From Marat/Sade -- Arthur Miller: Requiem (from Death of a salesman)
Summary: "Existentialism, 2/e, offers an exceptional and accessible introduction to the richness and diversity of existentialist thought. Retaining the focus of the highly successful first edition, the second edition provides extensive material on the "big four" existentialists--Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre--while also including selections from twenty-four other authors. Giving readers a sense of the variety of existentialist thought around the world, this edition also adds new readings by such figures as Luis Borges, Viktor Frankl, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Keiji Nishitani, and Rainer Maria Rilke. Existentialism, 2/e, also features: New translations of Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Buber More extensive selections from Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre New selections by Hazel E. Barnes, Miguel de Unamuno, Joseph Heller, Philip Roth, and Colin Wilson The Grand Inquisitor (from Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov) Ideal for undergraduate courses in existentialism and Continental philosophy, Existentialism, 2/e, is fascinating reading for anyone interested in the subject." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0618/2004057576-d.html.
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Existentialism, 2/e, offers an exceptional and accessible introduction to the richness and diversity of existentialist thought. Retaining the focus of the highly successful first edition, the second edition provides extensive material on the "big four" existentialists--Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre--while also including selections from twenty-four other authors. Giving readers a sense of the variety of existentialist thought around the world, this edition also adds new readings by such figures as Luis Borges, Viktor Frankl, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Keiji Nishitani, and Rainer Maria Rilke.

Existentialism, 2/e, also features:
* New translations of Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Buber
* More extensive selections from Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre
* New selections by Hazel E. Barnes, Miguel de Unamuno, Joseph Heller, Philip Roth, and Colin Wilson
* The Grand Inquisitor (from Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov)

Ideal for undergraduate courses in existentialism and Continental philosophy, Existentialism, 2/e, is fascinating reading for anyone interested in the subject.

Includes bibliographical references.

Søren Kierkegaard: From The present age ; From The Journals ; The rotation method (From Either/or) ; Is there such a thing as a teleological suspension of the ethical? (From Fear and trembling and the sickness unto death) ; Truth is subjectivity (From Concluding unscientific postscript) ; On becoming a Christian -- Ivan Turgenev: From Fathers and sons -- Feodor Dostoevsky: From Notes From underground -- Friedrich Nietzsche: From The joyful wisdom ; From Thus spoke Zarathustra ; From Beyond good and evil ; From The genealogy of moral ; From Twilight of the idols ; On truth ; On the will to power ; On eternal recurrence -- Hermann Hesse: From Steppenwolf -- Martin Heidegger: From Being and time ; The fundamental question of metaphysics (From Introduction to metaphysics) ; From Discourse on thinking -- Gabriel Marcel: What is a free man? (From Man against mass society) -- Karl Jaspers: Existenz (From Philosophy) ; Freedom (From Philosophy) ; Moral guilt (From The question of German guilt) -- Franz Kafka: Couriers (From Paracles and paradoxes) ; Before the law (From The penal colony) -- Andre Gide: Edouard's journal (From The counterfeiters) -- Albert Camus: From The stranger ; From The myth of Sisyphus ; From The fall ; From "Albert Camus" by Jean-Paul Sartre -- Jean-Paul Sartre: From Existentialism is a humanism ; From Nausea ; Patterns of bad faith (from Being and nothingness) ; From No exit ; Freedom and responsibility (from Being and nothingness) ; From The flies ; From The age of reason ; From St. Genet: actor and martyr ; Marxism and existentialism (from Search for a method) -- Maurice Merleau-Ponty: From "Merleau-Ponty" by Jean-Paul Sartre ; Prospectus (A report to the Collège de France) ; Freedom (from The phenomenology of perception) ; From Humanism and terror -- Simone de Beauvoir: From The ethics of ambiguity ; From The second sex -- Paul Ricoeur: Motive and value (from The voluntary and the involuntary) -- Nikolai Berdyaev: From The destiny of man -- Martin Buber: From I and thou -- Paul Tillich: From The courage to be -- Harold Pinter: From The dwarfs -- Samuel Beckett: Act without words -- Norman Mailer: From "The white negro" (from Advertisements for myself) -- R.D. Laing: Self consciousness (from The divided self) -- Saul Bellow: From Dangling man -- John Barth: From The end of the road -- Peter Weiss: From Marat/Sade -- Arthur Miller: Requiem (from Death of a salesman)

"Existentialism, 2/e, offers an exceptional and accessible introduction to the richness and diversity of existentialist thought. Retaining the focus of the highly successful first edition, the second edition provides extensive material on the "big four" existentialists--Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre--while also including selections from twenty-four other authors. Giving readers a sense of the variety of existentialist thought around the world, this edition also adds new readings by such figures as Luis Borges, Viktor Frankl, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Keiji Nishitani, and Rainer Maria Rilke. Existentialism, 2/e, also features: New translations of Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Buber More extensive selections from Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre New selections by Hazel E. Barnes, Miguel de Unamuno, Joseph Heller, Philip Roth, and Colin Wilson The Grand Inquisitor (from Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov) Ideal for undergraduate courses in existentialism and Continental philosophy, Existentialism, 2/e, is fascinating reading for anyone interested in the subject." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0618/2004057576-d.html.

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