Existentialism : Basic Writings

Name: Existentialism : Basic Writings
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ISBN: 9780872202146

ISBN-10: 0872202143

ISBN-13: 9780872202146

Edition: 1st 1995

Authors: Charles B. Guignon, Derk Pereboom

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This book offers a brief introduction to the thought of four figures central to existential philosophy--Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre. An introductory chapter presents the basic perspective and concerns of existentialism, and describes its place in the history of philosophy. Similar introductions are provided for each of the four philosophers, followed by selections from their major works. Background readings are also excerpted from works by Hegel and Husserl. No index. c. Book News Inc.

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List price: $21.95
Edition: 1st
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 378
Language: English

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Legacy of Existentialism
Kierkegaard	p. 1
Fear and Trembling
Preface	p. 18
A Panegyric Upon Abraham	p. 21
Problemata: Preliminary Expectoration	p. 27
Problem I (Is there such a thing as a teleological suspension of the ethical?)	p. 48
Problem II (Is there such a thing as an absolute duty toward God?)	p. 58
The Sickness unto Death
That Despair is the Sickness unto Death	p. 70
Concluding Unscientific Postscript
The Subjective Truth, Inwardness; Truth is Subjectivity	p. 77
Nietzsche	p. 85
The Birth of Tragedy (Section One)	p. 111
The Gay Science	p. 115
Twilight of the Idols	p. 164
The Problem of Socrates	p. 164
"Reason" in Philosophy	p. 168
How the "True World" Finally Became a Fiction	p. 172
Heidegger	p. 175
Being and Time
The Question of Being	p. 203
The Twofold Task in Working Out the Question of Being	p. 207
The Task of a Prepatory Analysis of Dasein	p. 211
Being-in-the-World in General as the Basic State of Dasein	p. 213
The Worldhood of the World	p. 214
Being-in-the-World as Being-With and Being-One's-Self. The "They"	p. 222
Being-in as Such	p. 228
Care as the Being of Dasein	p. 235
Dasein's Possibility of Being-a-whole, and Being-toward-death	p. 238
Authenticity and Resoluteness	p. 243
Temporality as the Ontological Meaning of Care	p. 245
Sartre	p. 247
The Humanism of Existentialism	p. 268
Being and Nothingness
The Origin of Negation: The Question	p. 287
Negations	p. 290
The Origin of Nothingness	p. 296
Bad Faith and Falsehood	p. 306
Patterns of Bad Faith	p. 309
The "Faith" of Bad Faith	p. 322
The Existence of Others	p. 326
Freedom and Responsibility	p. 330
Existential Psychoanalysis	p. 333
Ethical Implications	p. 338
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