Existential Literature An Introduction

Name: Existential Literature An Introduction
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ISBN: 9780534567057

ISBN-10: 0534567053

ISBN-13: 9780534567057

Edition: 2001

Authors: Linda E. Patrik

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This anthology with introductions presents the major figures of existentialism, including Dostoyevsky, Sartre, Beauvoir, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche, through their literary rather than philosophical writings. This approach makes for an anthology that captures students' attention and helps them to understand the philosophers' views. Each selection includes an introduction that provides philosophical background, a section on the basic existential concepts covered in the reading, and insightful study questions.

Book details

List price: $149.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 7/25/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 7.40" wide x 9.25" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Preface



Existentialist Views on the Human Condition



Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Notes from Underground"


Introduction: The Sickness of Too Much Consciousness


Dostoyevsky's "Notes from Underground: Part I" (Excerpts)


Basic Existentialist Concepts


Subjectivity


Individuality


Questions for Discussion



Jean-Paul Sartre's Nausea


Introduction: Lived Experience


Sartre's Nausea (Excerpts)


Basic Existentialist Concepts


Contingency


For-itself


In-itself


Questions for Discussion



Jean-Paul Sartre's The Flies


Introduction: Existence Precedes Essence


Sartre's The Flies (Excerpts)


Basic Existentialist Concepts


Freedom


Responsibility


Project


Anguish


Questions for Discussion



Albert Camus' The Stranger


Introduction: Existential Estrangement


Camus' The Stranger (Excerpts)


Basic Existentialist Concepts


Alienation


Authenticity


Questions for Discussion



Albert Camus' "The Myth of Sisyphus"


Introduction: The Absurd Hero


Camus' "The Myth of Sisyphus" (Excerpt)


Basic Existentialist Concepts


Absurdity


Questions for Discussion



Simone de Beauvoir's A Very Easy Death


Introduction: Autobiographical Consciousness


Beauvoir's A Very Easy Death (Excerpts)


Basic Existentialist Concepts


Finitude


Lived Body


Questions for Discussion



Existentialist Views on Relations with Others



Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit


Introduction: Hell Is Other People


Sartre's No Exit (Excerpts)


Basic Existentialist Concepts


Being-with-Others


The Look


Bad Faith


Questions for Discussion



Simone de Beauvoir's "The Woman Destroyed"


Introduction: Critique of Women's Dependency


Beauvoir's "The Woman Destroyed" (Excerpts)


Basic Existentialist Concepts


Woman as Other


Questions for Discussion



Richard Wright's "The Man Who Lived Underground"


Introduction: Black Activism and Existentialism


Wright's "The Man Who Lived Underground"


Basic Existentialist Concepts


Insider-Outsider


Questions for Discussion



Existentialist Views on Religion



Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra


Introduction: Critique of Morality


Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Excerpts)


Basic Existentialist Concepts


The Herd


The Superman


Will to Power


Transvaluation of Values


Questions for Discussion



Soren Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling


Introduction: Critique of Organized Religion


Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling (Excerpts)


Basic Existentialist Concepts


Despair


Leap of Faith


Teleological Suspension of the Ethical


Questions for Discussion



Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "The Grand Inquisitor"


Introduction: Religious Doubt and Debate


Dostoyevsky's "The Grand Inquisitor" (Excerpts)


Basic Existentialist Concepts


Burden of Freedom


Questions for Discussion



Franz Kafka's "Before the Law"


Introduction: Inscrutability of God's Law


Kafka's "Before the Law"


Basic Existentialist Concepts


Insecurity


Questions for Discussion


Suggestions for Further Reading