UID:
almahu_9947361151502882
Format:
1 online resource (428 pages) :
,
digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781139015066 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
Content:
Existentialism exerts a continuing fascination on students of philosophy and general readers. As a philosophical phenomenon, though, it is often poorly understood, as a form of radical subjectivism that turns its back on reason and argumentation and possesses all the liabilities of philosophical idealism but without any idealistic conceptual clarity. In this volume of original essays, the first to be devoted exclusively to existentialism in over forty years, a team of distinguished commentators discuss the ideas of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and Beauvoir and show how their focus on existence provides a compelling perspective on contemporary issues in moral psychology and philosophy of mind, language and history. A further sequence of chapters examines the influence of existential ideas beyond philosophy, in literature, religion, politics and psychiatry. The volume offers a rich and comprehensive assessment of the continuing vitality of existentialism as a philosophical movement and a cultural phenomenon.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Jan 2017).
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521513340
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521513340
