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The Cambridge Companion to Existentialism

By Steven Crowell

The Cambridge Companion to Existentialism book

The Cambridge Companion to Existentialism

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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 psychology and philosophy of mind, language and history. A further sequence of chapters examines the influence of existential ideas beyond philosophy, in literature, religion, politics and psychiatry. The volume offers a rich and comprehensive assessment of the continuing vitality of existentialism as a philosophical movement and a cultural phenomenon.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
428
Release Date:
2012-02-16
Publication Date:
2012-02-16
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
0521732786
Weight:
680 g
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