ExistentialismWith its emphasis on individuality, freedom, and personal responsibility, existentialism was one of the 20th century’s most significant philosophical movements. Through such writers as Sarte, de Beauvoir, and Camus, it influenced literature, the arts and humanities, and politics. Thomas R. Flynn examines the philosophy’s core beliefs, focusing on several key existential themes, and introduces the leading existentialist thinkers, from Kierkegaard and Nietzsche to Sartre.
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Contents
Philosophy as a Way of Life | 1 |
Becoming an Individual | 29 |
Humanism For and Against | 57 |
Authenticity | 75 |
A Chastened Individualism? Existentialism and Social Thought | 99 |
Existentialism in the Twentyfirst Century | 129 |
References | 157 |
Further Reading | 161 |
Glossary | 165 |
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abstract Albert Camus ambiguity anguish argues argument authentic awareness bad faith basic becoming an individual being-unto-death Camus's century choice claim commitment concept concrete consciousness creative critical Critique cultural death dimension Edmund Husserl Either/Or ekstatic essays essence example existen existence existentialism existentialist existentialist thought Existenz experience fact facticity form of bad Foucault free spirits freedom and responsibility French Friedrich Nietzsche fundamental Gabriel Marcel German Hegelian Heidegger's hermeneutics human Husserl inauthentic insisted Jean-Paul Sartre Karl Jaspers Kierkegaard and Nietzsche kind language lecture linguistic lives manner Martin Heidegger Maurice Merleau-Ponty meaning metaphysical method moral movement nature Nazi Nietzsche's Nietzschean Nothingness objective one's person phenomenological philosopher play political possibility postmodern practico-inert pre-reflective psychoanalysis reflection relation religious Sartre calls Sartre's Sartrean seems sense Simone de Beauvoir simply Sisyphus situation social society Socrates Søren Kierkegaard structuralist structures temporality tentialist term theory tialist tion transcendence truth University Press values will-to-power words