Cambridge Companion to Existentialism

Name: Cambridge Companion to Existentialism
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ISBN: 9780521732789

ISBN-10: 0521732786

ISBN-13: 9780521732789

Edition: 2012

Authors: Steven Crowell

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Existentialism exerts a continuing fascination on students of philosophy and general readers. As a philosophical phenomenon, though, it is often poorly understood, as a form of radical subjectivism that turns its back on reason and argumentation and possesses all the liabilities of philosophical idealism but without any idealistic conceptual clarity. In this volume of original essays, the first to be devoted exclusively to existentialism in over forty years, a team of distinguished commentators discuss the ideas of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and Beauvoir and show how their focus on existence provides a compelling perspective on contemporary issues in moral…

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List price: $56.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/16/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 428
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.98" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English




Introduction: Introduction



Existentialism and its legacy




Existentialism in Historical Perspective



Existentialism as a philosophical movement




Existentialism as a cultural movement




Major Existentialist Philosophers



Kierkegaard's single individual and the point of indirect communication




'What a monster then is man': Pascal and Kierkegaard on being a contradictory self and what to do about it




Nietzsche: after the death of God




Nietzsche: selfhood, creativity, and philosophy




Heidegger: the existential analytic of Dasein




The antinomy of being: Heidegger's critique of humanism




Sartre's existentialism and the nature of consciousness




Political existentialism: the career of Sartre's political thought




Simone de Beauvoir's existentialism: freedom and ambiguity in the human world




Merleau-Ponty on body, flesh, and visibility




The Reach of Existential Philosophy



Existentialism as literature




Existentialism and religion




Racism is a system: how existentialism became dialectical in Fanon and Sartre




Existential phenomenology, psychiatric illness, and the death of possibilities



Bibliography of works cited


Index