Category: Existentialism

By Stephen Priest

The topic in Question offers a desirable perception right into a debate among of the 20th century's most renowned philosophers - Jean-Paul Sartre and Edmund Husserl - over the main notions of wakeful event and the self. Sartre's The Transcendence of the Ego, released in 1937, is a huge textual content within the phenomenological culture and units the path for a lot of his later paintings. The topic in Question is the 1st full-length research of this recognized paintings and its impact on twentieth-century philosophy. It additionally investigates the connection among Sartre's rules and the sooner paintings of Descartes and Kant.

By Rollo May

ISBN-10: 0440530121

ISBN-13: 9780440530121

The preferred psychoanalyst examines the ongoing rigidity in our lives among the chances that freedom bargains and some of the obstacles imposed upon us through our specific destiny or destiny.

"May is an existential analyst who deservedly enjoys a name between either common and important readers as an available and insightful social and mental theorist. . . . Freedom's features, end result, and difficulties; destiny's fact; demise; and therapy's position within the war of words among freedom and future are tested. . . . Poets, social critics, artists, and different thinkers are invoked safely to aid May's conception of freedom and destiny's interdependence."—Library magazine "Especially instructive, even wonderful, is Dr. May's willingness to appreciate secret. . . .There is, too, at paintings in the course of the publication a disciplined but secure scientific brain, prone to rejoice . . . what Flannery O'Connor referred to as 'mystery and manners,' and to take action in a tactful, meditative manner."—Robert Coles, America

By Maurice Merleau-Ponty

ISBN-10: 0415045568

ISBN-13: 9780415045568

Difficult and profitable in equivalent degree, Phenomenology of notion is Merleau-Ponty's most renowned paintings. extraordinary in either scope and mind's eye, it makes use of the instance of belief to come the physique to the vanguard of philosophy for the 1st time because Plato. Drawing on case experiences similar to brain-damaged sufferers from the 1st global struggle, Merleau-Ponty brilliantly exhibits how the physique performs a very important position not just in notion yet in speech, sexuality and our relation to others. maybe especially, Merleau-Ponty's insights in regards to the embodied brain are a daring and clean problem to the recent period of digital fact and synthetic intelligence, as scientists and psychologists detect the centrality of the physique to brain and intelligence.

By Theodor W. Adorno

ISBN-10: 0810104075

ISBN-13: 9780810104075

Theodor Adorno was once no stranger to controversy. within the Jargon of Authenticity he offers complete expression to his hostility to the language hired via convinced existentialist thinkers resembling Martin Heidegger. together with his standard alertness to the makes use of and abuses of language, he calls into query the jargon, or 'aura', as his colleague Walter Benjamin defined it, which clouded existentialists' suggestion. He argued that its use undermined the very message for that means and liberation that it sought to make real. additionally, such language - claiming to deal with the problem of freedom - signally did not show the inability of freedom inherent within the capitalist context during which it used to be written. as a substitute, in addition to the jargon of the ads jingle, it attributed worth to the delight of fast hope. Alerting his readers to the relationship among ideology and language, Adorno's frank and open problem to directness, and the avoidance of language that 'gives itself over both to the industry, to balderdash, or to the predominating vulgarity', is as well timed this present day because it ever has been.

By John Russon

ISBN-10: 0791457532

ISBN-13: 9780791457535

ISBN-10: 0791457540

ISBN-13: 9780791457542

ISBN-10: 0791486753

ISBN-13: 9780791486757

ISBN-10: 1417536071

ISBN-13: 9781417536078

Proposes that philosophy is the correct treatment for neurosis

By Mark Orme, Lissa Lincoln, Christine Margerrison

ISBN-10: 9042023589

ISBN-13: 9789042023581

Within the first decade of a brand new century, this choice of bilingual essays examines Camus's carrying on with acceptance for a brand new iteration of readers. In the most important respects, the area Camus knew has replaced past all acceptance: decolonization, the autumn of the Iron Curtain, a brand new period of globalization and the increase of recent sorts of terrorism have all provoked a reconsideration of Camus's writings. If the Absurd as soon as struck a specific chord, Meursault is as most probably now to be obvious as a colonial determine who expresses the alienation of the settler from the land of his beginning. but this expanding orthodoxy also needs to take account of the explanations why a brand new neighborhood of Algerian readers have embraced Camus. both, as soon as remoted due to his anti-Communist stance, Camus has been taken up through disaffected individuals of the Left, confident that new kinds of totalitarianism are overseas on this planet. This quantity, which levels from interpretations of Camus's literary works, his journalism and his political writings, should be of curiosity to all these looking to reconsider Camus's paintings within the mild of moral and political matters which are of constant relevance this day.

By Camus Albert

By Martin Heidegger

"What is the that means of being?" this is often the imperative query of Martin Heidegger's profoundly very important paintings, within which the nice thinker seeks to give an explanation for the elemental difficulties of life. A principal impact on later philosophy, literature, artwork, and criticism—as good as existentialism and masses of postmodern thought—Being and Time ceaselessly replaced the highbrow map of the trendy international. As Richard Rorty wrote within the long island instances ebook assessment, "You can't learn lots of the vital thinkers of modern instances with no taking Heidegger's concept into account."

By Rollo May

ISBN-10: 039334696X

ISBN-13: 9780393346961

“Clear, actual, and engaging. there's no higher brief advent to the existential method of psychology.” —Dallas Morning News

The significant psychologist Rollo may well was once a huge strength in existential psychology. right here, he brings jointly the tips of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and different nice thinkers to supply insights into its rules and strategies. He will pay specific realization to the factors of loneliness and isolation and to our seek to discover new and company moorings in an effort to flow towards a destiny the place accountability, creativity, and love can play a task.

By Kobo Abe

ISBN-10: 0307813738

ISBN-13: 9780307813732

One of many optimal jap novels of the 20 th century, the ladies within the Dunes combines the essence of fantasy, suspense, and the existential novel. In a distant seashore village, Niki Jumpei, a instructor and beginner entomologist, is held captive with a tender girl on the backside of an unlimited sand pit the place, Sisyphus-like, they're pressed into shoveling off the ever-advancing sand dunes that threaten the village.