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Book Jean Paul Sartre  Sartre and Existentialism in English

Download or read book Jean Paul Sartre Sartre and Existentialism in English written by Allen Belkind and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Understanding Existentialism

Download or read book Understanding Existentialism written by Dr. Jack Reynolds and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Existentialism provides an accessible introduction to existentialism by examining the major themes in the work of Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and de Beauvoir. Paying particular attention to the key texts, Being and Time, Being and Nothingness, Phenomenology of Perception, The Ethics of Ambiguity and The Second Sex, the book explores the shared concerns and the disagreements between these major thinkers. The fundamental existential themes examined include: freedom; death, finitude and mortality; phenomenological experiences and 'moods', such as anguish, angst, nausea, boredom, and fear; an emphasis upon authenticity and responsibility as well as the denigration of their opposites (inauthenticity and Bad Faith); a pessimism concerning the tendency of individuals to become lost in the crowd and even a pessimism about human relations more generally; and a rejection of any external determination of morality or value. Finally, the book assesses the influence of these philosophers on poststructuralism, arguing that existentialism remains an extraordinarily productive school of thought.

Book Kant and Sartre

    Book Details:
  • Author : S. Baiasu
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2011-08-26
  • ISBN : 0230295169
  • Pages : 291 pages

Download or read book Kant and Sartre written by S. Baiasu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-08-26 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the view of the relationship between Kant's and Sartre's practical philosophies arguing that Kant was one of Sartre's most significant predecessors. The book identifies several fundamental theses of Sartre's practical philosophy, and shows Sartre to be closer to Kant in this respect than many contemporary Kantian theories are.

Book The Debate Between Sartre and Merleau Ponty

Download or read book The Debate Between Sartre and Merleau Ponty written by Jon Stewart and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-28 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays provides a portrait of the intellectual relationship between these two men. It addresses several points of contact and covers themes of the debate from the different periods in their shared history.

Book Either Or

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  • Author : Soren Kierkegaard
  • Publisher : Penguin UK
  • Release : 2004-07-01
  • ISBN : 0141915757
  • Pages : 640 pages

Download or read book Either Or written by Soren Kierkegaard and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-07-01 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Either/Or, using the voices of two characters - the aesthetic young man of part one, called simply 'A', and the ethical Judge Vilhelm of the second section - Kierkegaard reflects upon the search for a meaningful existence, contemplating subjects as diverse as Mozart, drama, boredom, and, in the famous Seducer's Diary, the cynical seduction and ultimate rejection of a young, beautiful woman. A masterpiece of duality, Either/Or is a brilliant exploration of the conflict between the aesthetic and the ethical - both meditating ironically and seductively upon Epicurean pleasures, and eloquently expounding the noble virtues of a morally upstanding life.

Book From Shakespeare to Existentialism

Download or read book From Shakespeare to Existentialism written by Walter A. Kaufmann and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1980-07-21 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion volume to his Critique of Religion and Philosophy, this book offers Walter Kaufmann's critical interpretations of some of the great minds in Western philosophy, religion, and literature.

Book Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre

Download or read book Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre written by Walter Arnold Kaufmann and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 1975 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Meridan book.

Book Romance and Reason

Download or read book Romance and Reason written by Andrew M. Koch and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alienation, as a theme, deeply pervaded both the work and life of Max Weber, one of the pillars of modern sociology. In this excellent new book, Andrew M. Koch analyzes the genesis of the conecpt of alienation and then, in a brilliant and imaginative turn, works to recreate the context in which Weber understood alienation in both the intellectual and lived sense.

Book Jean Paul Sartre s Existentialism in Literature and Philosophy

Download or read book Jean Paul Sartre s Existentialism in Literature and Philosophy written by Ashok Kumar Malhotra and published by Oneonta Philosophy Studies. This book was released on 1995-12-01 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book On the Genealogy of Morals

Download or read book On the Genealogy of Morals written by Friedrich Nietzsche and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 1998-11-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. Nietzsche rewrites the former as a history of cruelty, exposing the 4entral values of the Judaeo-Christian and liberal traditions - compassion, equality, justice - as the product of a brutal process of conditioning designed to domesticate the animal vitality of earlier cultures. The result is a book which raises profoundly disquieting issues about the violence of both ethics and interpretation. Nietzsche questions moral certainties by showing that religion and science have no claim to absolute truth, before turning on his own arguments in order to call their very presuppositions into question. The Genealogy is the most sustained of Nietzsche's later works and offers one of the fullest expressions of his characteristic concerns. This edition places his ideas within the cultural context of his own time and stresses the relevance of his work for a contemporary audience. - ;`Reason, seriousness, mastery over the emotions, the whole murky affair which goes by the name of thought, all the privileges and showpieces of man: what a high price has been paid for them! How much blood and horror is at the bottom of all "good things!"' On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. Nietzsche rewrites the former as a history of cruelty, exposing the central values of the Judaeo-Christian and liberal traditions - compassion, equality, justice - as the product of a brutal process of conditioning designed to domesticate the animal vitality of earlier cultures. The result is a book which raises profoundly disquieting issues about the violence of both ethics and interpretation. Nietzsche questions moral certainties by showing that religion and science have no claim to absolute truth, before turning on his own arguments in order to call their very presuppositions into question. The Genealogy is the most sustained of Nietzsche's later works and offers one of the fullest expressions of his characteristic concerns. This edition places his ideas within the cultural context of his own time and stresses the relevance of his work for a contemporary audience. -

Book Fear and Trembling  A New Translation

Download or read book Fear and Trembling A New Translation written by Søren Kierkegaard and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This newly translated Fear and Trembling, a foundational document of modern philosophy and existentialism, could not be more apt for our perilous times. First published in 1843 under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio (“John of Silence”), Soren Kierkegaard’s richly resonant Fear and Trembling has for generations stood as a pivotal text in the history of moral philosophy, inspiring such artistic and philosophical luminaries as Edvard Munch, W. H. Auden, Walter Benjamin, and existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre. Now, in our era of immense uncertainty, renowned Kierkegaard scholar Bruce H. Kirmmse eloquently brings this classic work to a new generation of readers. Retelling the biblical story of the binding of Isaac, Fear and Trembling expounds on the ordeal of Abraham, who was commanded by God to sacrifice his own son in an exceptional test of faith. Disgusted at the self-certainty of his own age, Kierkegaard investigates the paradox underlying Abraham’s decision to allow his duty to God to take precedence over his duties to his family. As Kierkegaard’s narrator explains, the story presents a difficulty that is not often considered—namely, that after the ordeal is over and Isaac has been spared at the last moment, Abraham is capable of receiving him again and living normally, even joyfully, for the rest of his days. Almost inexplicably, “Abraham had faith and did not doubt.” Deftly tracing the autobiographical threads that run throughout the work, Kirmmse initially, in his lucid and engaging introduction, demystifies Kierkegaard’s fictive narrator, Johannes de silentio, drawing parallels between Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son and the author’s personal “sacrifices.” Ultimately, however, Kirmmse reveals Fear and Trembling as a fiercely polemical volume, designed to provoke the reader into considering what is actually meant by the word “faith,” and whether those who consider themselves “true believers” actually are. With a vibrancy almost never before seen in English, and “a matchless grasp of the intricacies of Kierkegaard’s writing process” (Gordon Marino), Kirmmse here definitively demonstrates Kierkegaard’s enduring power to illuminate the terrible wonder of faith.

Book Life of the Transcendental Ego

Download or read book Life of the Transcendental Ego written by Edward S. Casey and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1986-06-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life of the Transcendental Ego presents essays by a number of distinguished writers in the continental tradition of philosophy. The essays include problems in transcendental philosophy, the nature of autobiography, the validity of existentialism, the possibilities of phenomenology, as well as focused discussions of concrete issues in aesthetics and ethics.

Book Paradise and Inferno

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  • Author : Sorin Cerin
  • Publisher : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2011-06-02
  • ISBN : 1463552262
  • Pages : 83 pages

Download or read book Paradise and Inferno written by Sorin Cerin and published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. If people would have the possibility to build each in part their own paradise they and would transform society and their lives into inferno. 2. We hope to paradise, not knowing, how much inferno can contain his essence.3. In paradise even and the hopes die because no one more has needed of them.4. There is no paradise without hopes and no paradise that once was created, to more leave to the hopes, life. From here, the paradise exists, only in illusory form of hope and nothing more.5. Only the one, fallen from paradise can to appreciate the inferno.

Book The Seventh Solitude

Download or read book The Seventh Solitude written by Ralph Harper and published by Baltimore, Hopkins. This book was released on 1965 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these three predecessors of existentialism, all of whom were profoundly influenced by Stendhal, the author finds evidence of that spiritual isolation which leads ultimately to personal solitude and philosophical nihilism. To these negative modes of being he opposes the alternatives embodied by St. Augustine and Proust-- the passion for God and the passion for creation.

Book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library  1911 1971

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library 1911 1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Aquinas and Sartre

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  • Author : Stephen Wang
  • Publisher : CUA Press
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 0813215765
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book Aquinas and Sartre written by Stephen Wang and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Aquinas and Jean-Paul Sartre are usually identified with completely different philosophical traditions: intellectualism and voluntarism. In this original study, Stephen Wang shows, instead, that there are some profound similarities in their understanding of freedom and human identity.

Book Nietzsche  Heidegger  and Daoist Thought

Download or read book Nietzsche Heidegger and Daoist Thought written by Katrin Froese and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2006-07-13 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work of comparative philosophy envisions a cosmological whole that celebrates difference.