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Existential America

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ISBN-10: 0801882001

ISBN-13: 9780801882005

Edition: 2003

Authors: George Cotkin

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Europe's leading existential thinkers -- Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Albert Camus -- all felt that Americans were too self-confident and shallow to accept their philosophy of responsibility, choice, and the absurd. "There is no pessimism in America regarding human nature and social organization," Sartre remarked in 1950, while Beauvoir wrote that Americans had no "feeling for sin and for remorse" and Camus derided American materialism and optimism. Existentialism, however, enjoyed rapid, widespread, and enduring popularity among Americans. No less than their European counterparts, American intellectuals participated in the conversation of existentialism. In Existential…    
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Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 4/29/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1741--1949 - American Existentialists before the Fact
The "Drizzly November" of the American Soul
1928--1955 - Kierkegaardian Moments
Kierkegaard Comes to America
A Kierkegaardian Age of Anxiety
1944--1960 - The Era of French Existentialism
The Vogue of French Existentialism
New York Intellectuals and French Existentialists
The Canon of Existentialism
1948--1968 - Realizing an Existential Vision
"Cold Rage": Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison
Norman Mailer's Existential Errand
Robert Frank's Existential Vision
1960--1993 - Postwar Student and Women's Movements
Camus's Rebels
Existential Feminists: Simone de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan
Conclusion: Existentialism Today and Tomorrow
Notes
Essay on Sources
Index
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