Six Existentialist Thinkers

Six Existentialist Thinkers
Author: Harold John Blackham
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2012-11-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1134964773

Includes summary but substantial accounts of the thought of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Jaspers, Marcel, Heidegger and Sartre, and a concluding essay that attempts to interpret the whole Existentialist movement.

Six Existentialist Thinkers

Six Existentialist Thinkers
Author: Harold John Blackham
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2012-11-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1134964781

Includes summary but substantial accounts of the thought of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Jaspers, Marcel, Heidegger and Sartre, and a concluding essay that attempts to interpret the whole Existentialist movement.

Existentialists and Mystics

Existentialists and Mystics
Author: Iris Murdoch
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 580
Release: 1999-07-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780140264920

Best known as the author of twenty-six novels, Iris Murdoch has also made significant contributions to the fields of ethics and aesthetics. Collected here for the first time in one volume are her most influential literary and philosophical essays. Tracing Murdoch's journey to a modern Platonism, this volume includes incisive evaluations of the thought and writings of T. S. Eliot, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvior, and Elias Canetti, as well as key texts on the continuing importance of the sublime, on the concept of love, and the role great literature can play in curing the ills of philosophy.Existentialists and Mystics not only illuminates the mysticism and intellectual underpinnings of Murdoch's novels, but confirms her major contributions to twentieth-century thought.

Rethinking Existentialism

Rethinking Existentialism
Author: Jonathan Webber
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2018-07-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0191054763

In Rethinking Existentialism, Jonathan Webber articulates an original interpretation of existentialism as the ethical theory that human freedom is the foundation of all other values. Offering an original analysis of classic literary and philosophical works published by Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Frantz Fanon up until 1952, Webber's conception of existentialism is developed in critical contrast with central works by Albert Camus, Sigmund Freud, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Presenting his arguments in an accessible and engaging style, Webber contends that Beauvoir and Sartre initially disagreed over the structure of human freedom in 1943 but Sartre ultimately came to accept Beauvoir's view over the next decade. He develops the viewpoint that Beauvoir provides a more significant argument for authenticity than either Sartre or Fanon. He articulates in detail the existentialist theories of individual character and the social identities of gender and race, key concerns in current discourse. Webber concludes by sketching out the broader implications of his interpretation of existentialism for philosophy, psychology, and psychotherapy.

The Existentialist Reader

The Existentialist Reader
Author: Paul S. MacDonald
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2001
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780415936637

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Existentialism: A Very Short Introduction

Existentialism: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Thomas Flynn
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2006-10-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0192804286

Sartre, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, de Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty, and Camus were some of the most important existentialist thinkers. This book provides an account of the existentialist movement, and of the themes of individuality, free will, and personal responsibility which make it a 'philosophy as a way of life'.

The Existentialist Moment

The Existentialist Moment
Author: Patrick Baert
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2015-08-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0745685439

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015 Jean-Paul Sartre is often seen as the quintessential public intellectual, but this was not always the case. Until the mid-1940s he was not so well-known, even in France. Then suddenly, in a very short period of time, Sartre became an intellectual celebrity. How can we explain this remarkable transformation? The Existentialist Moment retraces Sartre's career and provides a compelling new explanation of his meteoric rise to fame. Baert takes the reader back to the confusing and traumatic period of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath and shows how the unique political and intellectual landscape in France at this time helped to propel Sartre and existentialist philosophy to the fore. The book also explores why, from the early 1960s onwards, in France and elsewhere, the interest in Sartre and existentialism eventually waned. The Existentialist Moment ends with a bold new theory for the study of intellectuals and a provocative challenge to the widespread belief that the public intellectual is a species now on the brink of extinction.

Le Deuxième Sexe

Le Deuxième Sexe
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 791
Release: 1989
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0679724516

The classic manifesto of the liberated woman, this book explores every facet of a woman's life.