By Sidney Finkelstein
After a dialogue of the philosophical background—Kierkegaard to Heidegger—the writer examines the existentialist suggestion of Camus and Sartre, as it applies fairly to the challenge of social accountability. With many illuminating comparisons in the realm of global literature, he then proceeds to hint the impression of alienation in American letters because international struggle I, and its relation to the existentialist solution. between these mentioned are O’Neill, Fitzgerald, Eliot, Faulkner, Dos Passos, Henry Miller, Styron, Salinger, Albee, Updike, Purdy, Bellow, Mailer and Baldwin. The first of its sort, the publication offers a provocative and considerate feedback of modern American literature.
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E . , of its launching into history and its historicity. 'H H usserl had posed this question in the same terms but in i ts most inclusive extension and with a more cri tical , but less h istorical, inflexion i n FTL, § 1 00, pp. 263-64. There, however, it is limited to the egological sphere of Objecti v ity . Here it is focu sed on the possibility of objective spirit as the condition for h istory and in this respect takes the opposite view to Dilthey' s question. Dilthey, in effect, starts from the already constituted objective spiri t .
The sense of "only once" or of "once and for all," which is the essential mode of the object's ideal existence and thus that which dis tinguishes the object from the multiplicity of related acts and lived experiences, seems to have been clearly defined in these very terms by Herbart (Psychologie als Wissenschaft, II, § 1 20, p. 1 75) and taken up again by Husserl. The latter, recognizing that he owes much to Herbart and praising him for having distinguished better than Kant between the - 70 - From the perspective of our text , this dissociation finds its most direct and illum inat ing explication in EJ (§ 65 , p.
Cf. FTL, §9, pp. 36-38. " Thus the geometer . . will not th ink of exploring, besides geomet rical shapes, geometrical thinking" (p. 36). 4 0 On these questions, cf. in particular Jean Cavailles, S ur f a Logique et f a theorie de fa science (Paris : Presses Universitaires de France , 1 947), pp. 70ff. : Tr�m-Duc-Th {lO , Phenomenofogie, p . 35 : and especially S . Bachelard , A Study of Husserl' s Logic [Part I , Ch . 3 ] . pp. 43-63 . 47 This ideal is clearly defined by H u sserl , notably in the LI, I , Pro!.
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