The Existentialist Reader

An Anthology of Key Texts
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-415-93663-7
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

The Existentialist Reader is a comprehensive anthology of classic philosophical writings from eight key existentialist thinkers: Sartre, Camus, Heidegger, de Beauvoir, Jaspers, Marcel, Merleau-Ponty, and Ortega y Gasset. These substantial and carefully selected readings consider the distinctive concerns of existentialism: absurdity, anxiety, alienation, death. A comprehensive introduction by Paul S. MacDonald illuminates the existentialist quest for individual freedom and authentic human experience with insight into the historical and intellectual background of these major figures. The Existentialist Reader is a valuable guide to the provocative theories that shook the philosophical world in the 1930s and continue to profoundly shape the way we think about ourselves.

Autoren/Hrsg.

MacDonald, Paul S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Introduction: background and themes 1. Philosophizing Starts with Our Situation (1932), Karl Jaspers (1883-1969) 2. On the Ontological Mystery (1933), Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973) 3. History as a System (1935), José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) 4. An Absurd Reasoning (1942), Albert Camus (1913-1960) 5. Reflections on the Cartesian Cogito (1945), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) 6. Letter on Humanism (1947), Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) 7. Ambiguity and Freedom (1947), Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) 8. A New, Authentic Way of Being Oneself (1948), Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) Index

Über Autor(innen)

Paul S. MacDonald is Lecturer in Philosophy at Murdoch University in Western Australia. He is the author of Descartes and Husserl: The Philosophical Project of Radical Beginnings (1999).