Category: Existentialism

By Andrew J. Mitchell, Anthony J. Steinbock

ISBN-10: 0810130769

ISBN-13: 9780810130760

By Simone de Beauvoir

ISBN-10: 1453228489

ISBN-13: 9781453228487

In de Beauvoir’s moment significant essay, the popular French thinker illustrates the ethics of Existentialism via outlining a sequence of “ways of being”

In this vintage creation to Existentialist inspiration, French thinker Simone de Beauvoir’s The Ethics of Ambiguity at the same time can pay homage to and grapples together with her French contemporaries, philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, by means of arguing that the freedoms in Existentialism hold with them sure moral obligations. whereas considering Nihilism, Surrealism, Existentialism, Objectivity, and human values, The Ethics of Ambiguity is a radical exam of lifestyles and what it capability to human existence.

To do that, de Beauvoir outlines a chain of “ways of being” (the adventurer, the passionate individual, the sweetheart, the artist, and the intellectual), every one of which overcomes the former’s deficiencies, and for this reason can stay as much as the tasks of freedom. finally, de Beauvoir argues that during order to accomplish actual freedom, one needs to conflict opposed to the alternatives and actions of these who suppress it.

By Robert G. Olson

ISBN-10: 0486200558

ISBN-13: 9780486200552

Crucial consultant to 1 of the main influential inspiration structures of our century. Stressing the paintings of Heidegger and Sartre, it bargains a cautious and aim exam of the existentialist place and values — freedom of selection, person dignity, own love, artistic attempt — and solutions to the everlasting questions of the human .

By Harold Bloom

ISBN-10: 0791059170

ISBN-13: 9780791059173

An incredible learn of the French thinker, dramatist, novelist, and critic.

This name, Jean-Paul Sartre, a part of Chelsea condominium Publishers’ glossy serious perspectives sequence, examines the most important works of Jean-Paul Sartre via full-length serious essays by way of professional literary critics. furthermore, this name incorporates a brief biography on Jean-Paul Sartre, a chronology of the author’s existence, and an introductory essay written by means of Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the arts, Yale college.

By Jonathan Webber

ISBN-10: 0203844149

ISBN-13: 9780203844144

ISBN-10: 0415550955

ISBN-13: 9780415550956

ISBN-10: 0415550963

ISBN-13: 9780415550963

Jean-Paul Sartre used to be essentially the most influential philosophers of the 20th century. The fourteen unique essays during this quantity concentrate on the phenomenological and existentialist writings of the 1st significant part of his released profession, arguing with scholarly precision for his or her carrying on with significance to philosophical debate.

Aspects of Sartre’s philosophy below dialogue during this quantity include:

• consciousness and self-consciousness
• imagination and aesthetic experience
• emotions and different feelings
• embodiment
• selfhood and the Other
• freedom, undesirable religion, and authenticity
• literary fiction as philosophical writing

Reading Sartre: on Phenomenology and Existentialism is an imperative source for figuring out the character and significance of Sartre’s philosophy. it really is crucial analyzing for college students of phenomenology, existentialism, ethics, or aesthetics, and for an individual attracted to the roots of up to date concept in 20th century philosophy.

By Nicolas de Warren, Andrea Staiti

ISBN-10: 1107032571

ISBN-13: 9781107032576

ISBN-10: 1139506714

ISBN-13: 9781139506717

ISBN-10: 1316374319

ISBN-13: 9781316374313

ISBN-10: 2192212402

ISBN-13: 9782192212409

After the loss of life of German Idealism, Neo-Kantianism flourished because the defining philosophical circulate of Continental Europe from the 1860s till the Weimar Republic. This choice of new essays via exceptional students deals a clean exam of the numerous and enduring contributions that Neo-Kantianism has made to a various diversity of philosophical matters. The essays speak about classical figures and subject matters, together with the Marburg and Southwestern faculties, Cohen, Cassirer, Rickert, and Natorp's psychology. additionally they research lesser-known themes, together with the Neo-Kantian impact on idea of legislation, Husserlian phenomenology, Simmel's learn of Rembrandt, Cassirer's philosophy of technology, Cohen's philosophy of faith in terms of Rawls and Habermas, and Rickert's concept of quantity. This wealthy exploration of an enormous philosophical circulate will curiosity students and upper-level scholars of Kant, twentieth-century philosophy, continental philosophy, sociology, and psychology

By Michael Scriven (auth.)

ISBN-10: 0312106173

ISBN-13: 9780312106171

ISBN-10: 1349230812

ISBN-13: 9781349230815

ISBN-10: 1349230839

ISBN-13: 9781349230839

By Paul Ricœur, David Pellauer, Kathleen McLaughlin

ISBN-10: 0226713369

ISBN-13: 9780226713366

Within the first volumes of this paintings, Paul Ricoeur tested the kin among time and narrative in ancient writing, fiction, and theories of literature. This ultimate quantity, a complete reexamination and synthesis of the information constructed in volumes 1 and a pair of, stands as Ricoeur's so much entire and pleasing presentation of his personal philosophy.

Ricoeur's objective this is to explicate as absolutely as attainable the speculation that has ruled his inquiry, specifically, that the hassle of pondering at paintings in each narrative configuration is done in a refiguration of temporal adventure. To this finish, he units himself the vital activity of determing how some distance a poetics of narrative could be acknowledged to unravel the "aporias"—the uncertain or complicated elements—of time. leader between those aporias are the conflicts among the phenomenological experience of time (that skilled or lived via the person) and the cosmological feel (that defined through heritage and physics) at the one hand and the oneness or unitary nature of time at the different. In end, Ricoeur displays upon the inscrutability of time itself and makes an attempt to parent the bounds of his personal exam of narrative discourse.

"As in his prior works, Ricoeur labors as an imcomparable mediator of frequently estranged philosophical methods, continuously in a way that compromises neither rigor nor creativity."—Mark Kline Taylor, Christian Century

"In the midst of 2 opposing modern options—either to escape into ever extra important readings . . . or to retreat into ever extra secure readings . . . —Ricoeur's paintings deals another choice that's serious, wide-ranging, and conducive to new applications."—Mary Gerhart, Journal of Religion

Note: I'd say this can be simply the most very important books I've learn within the final decade. tricky studying, yet worth the persistence. Recommended.

By Fionola Meredith

ISBN-10: 0230504337

ISBN-13: 9780230504332

ISBN-10: 134952252X

ISBN-13: 9781349522521

ISBN-10: 4720043054

ISBN-13: 9784720043059

This booklet charts and demanding situations the bruising impression of post-Saussurean inspiration at the different types of expertise and self-presence. It makes an attempt a reappropriation of the class of lived adventure in discussion with poststructuralist pondering. Following the perception that mediated subjectivity don't need to suggest alienated selfhood, Meredith forwards a postmetaphysical version of the experiential according to the interpenetration of poststructuralist pondering and hermeneutic phenomenology. in view that poststructuralist ways in feminist concept have frequently positioned women's lived studies 'under erasure', Meredith makes use of this hermeneutic/deconstructive version to aim a rehabilitation of the singular 'flesh and blood' woman existent.

By Patrick Hayden (auth.)

ISBN-10: 1137525835

ISBN-13: 9781137525833

ISBN-10: 1349707317

ISBN-13: 9781349707317