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Subject(s)

• Existentialism [Browse]

Series

Doubleday anchor books [More in this series]

Summary note

A lucid definition of twentieth-century existentialism, examining its origins, the thought of its major spokesmen, and its impact on literature, art, music, and philosophy today.

Notes

Includes index.

Contents

• "The present age". The advent of existentialism ; The encounter with nothingness ; The testimony of modern art
• The sources of existentialism in the western tradition. Hebraism and Hellenism ; Christian sources ; The flight from Laputa
• The existentialists. Kierkegaard ; Nietzsche ; Heidegger ; Sartre
• Integral vs. rational man. The place of the Furies
• Appendices. Negation, finitude, and the nature of man ; Existence and analytic philosophers.

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ISBN

• 0385031386 ((paperback))
• 9780385031387 ((paperback))

LCCN

58008081

OCLC

5976348

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