Cambridge Companion to Existentialism Crowell Steven
Cambridge Companion to Existentialism Crowell Steven Existentialism exerts a continuing fascination on students of philosophy and general readers. In this volume of original essays, the first to be…
Specifikacia Cambridge Companion to Existentialism Crowell Steven
Cambridge Companion to Existentialism Crowell Steven
Existentialism exerts a continuing fascination on students of philosophy and general readers. 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. 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.
A further sequence of chapters examines the influence of existential ideas beyond philosophy, in literature, religion, politics and psychiatry. The