Irrational man : a study in existential philosophy
William Barrett
Bok · Engelsk · 1990
| Originaltittel | [ Irrational man ]
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| Omfang | 314 sider
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| Opplysninger | Opprinnelig utgitt : New York : Doubleday, 1958. - 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).. - Discusses the roots of existentialism in the art and thinking of Augustine, Aquinas, Pascal, Baudelaire, Blake, Dostoevski, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Picasso, Joyce, and Beckett. The heart of the book explains the views of the foremost existentialists--Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre. The result is a lucid definition of existentialism and an interpretation of its impact.
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| ISBN | 0385031386. - 9780385031387
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