Existentialism Basic Writings

Name: Existentialism Basic Writings
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ISBN: 9780872205956

ISBN-10: 0872205959

ISBN-13: 9780872205956

Edition: 2nd 2001 (Revised)

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.

Book details

List price: $25.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/15/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Legacy of Existentialism


Kierkegaard


Fear and Trembling


Preface


A Panegyric Upon Abraham


Problemata: Preliminary Expectoration


Problem I (Is there such a thing as a teleological suspension of the ethical?)


Problem II (Is there such a thing as an absolute duty toward God?)


The Sickness unto Death


That Despair is the Sickness unto Death


Concluding Unscientific Postscript


The Subjective Truth, Inwardness; Truth is Subjectivity


Nietzsche


The Birth of Tragedy (Section One)


The Gay Science


Twilight of the Idols


The Problem of Socrates


"Reason" in Philosophy


How the "True World" Finally Became a Fiction


Heidegger


Being and Time


The Question of Being


The Twofold Task in Working Out the Question of Being


The Task of a Prepatory Analysis of Dasein


Being-in-the-World in General as the Basic State of Dasein


The Worldhood of the World


Being-in-the-World as Being-With and Being-One's-Self. The "They"


Being-in as Such


Care as the Being of Dasein


Dasein's Possibility of Being-a-whole, and Being-toward-death


Authenticity and Resoluteness


Temporality as the Ontological Meaning of Care


Sartre


The Humanism of Existentialism


Being and Nothingness



The Origin of Negation: The Question



Negations



The Origin of Nothingness



Bad Faith and Falsehood



Patterns of Bad Faith



The "Faith" of Bad Faith



The Existence of Others



Freedom and Responsibility



Existential Psychoanalysis



Ethical Implications