The Bloomsbury Companion To Existentialism

Author : Felicity Joseph,Jack Reynolds,Ashley Woodward
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472567857

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The Bloomsbury Companion to Existentialism by Felicity Joseph,Jack Reynolds,Ashley Woodward Pdf

The Bloomsbury Companion to Existentialism is the definitive guide to this key area of modern European philosophy. Now available in paperback, the book covers the fundamental questions asked by existentialism, providing valuable guidance for students and researchers to some of the many important and enduring contributions of existentialist thinkers. Chapters from an international team of experts explore existentialism's relationship to philosophical method; ontology; politics; psychoanalysis; ethics; religion; literature; emotion; feminism and sexuality; emotions; authenticity and the self; its significance in Latin American culture; and its contribution to the development of post-structuralism and cognitive science. In addition, five short chapters summarize the status of canonical figures Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre and de Beauvoir, delineating the historical approach to their work, while pointing to new directions contemporary research is now taking. Featuring a series of indispensable research tools such as an A to Z glossary, a timeline of key events, texts and thinkers in existentialism, a list of resources, and an annotated guide to further reading, this Companion is an essential resource to help the new reader navigate through the heart of Existentialism and modern European philosophy.

Author : Francois Raffoul,Eric S. Nelson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441141613

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The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger by Francois Raffoul,Eric S. Nelson Pdf

Martin Heidegger is one of the twentieth century's most important philosophers. His ground-breaking works have had a hugely significant impact on contemporary thought through their reception, appropriation and critique. His thought has influenced philosophers as diverse as Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Arendt, Adorno, Gadamer, Levinas, Derrida and Foucault, among others. In addition to his formative role in philosophical movements such as phenomenology, hermeneutics and existentialism, structuralism and post-structuralism, deconstruction and post-modernism, Heidegger has had a transformative effect on diverse fields of inquiry including political theory, literary criticism, theology, gender theory, technology and environmental studies. The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger is the definitive reference guide to Heidegger's life and work, presenting fifty-eight original essays written by an international team of leading Heidegger scholars. The volume includes comprehensive coverage of Heidegger life and contexts, sources, influences and encounters, key writings, major themes and topics, and reception and influence. This is the ideal research tool for anyone studying or working in the field of Heidegger Studies today.

Author : Jack Reynolds,Ashley Woodward,Felicity Joseph
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350227453

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Existentialism by Jack Reynolds,Ashley Woodward,Felicity Joseph Pdf

This fully revised and updated 2nd edition provides a comprehensive reference guide to existentialism, featuring key chapters on key existentialist thinkers, as well as chapters applying existentialism to subject areas ranging across politics, literature, feminism, religion, the emotions, cognitive science, and poststructuralism. Contemporary developments in the field of existentialism that speak to issues of identity and exclusion are explored in 4 new chapters on race, gender, disability, and technology, whilst the 5th new chapter new chapter outlines analytic philosophy's complicated relationship to existentialism. Presenting the field of existentialism beyond the European tradition, this edition also includes a new key thinker chapter on Frantz Fanon, alongside Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre and de Beauvoir, as well as new engagement with the work of scholars on race and existentialism, including Lewis R. Gordon, George Yancy, and Richard Wright. The resources section at the end of the book includes an updated A to Z glossary, and timeline of key events, texts and thinkers in existentialism, as well as a list of relevant organisations, and an annotated guide to further reading, making this 2nd edition an invaluable text for scholars and students alike.

Author : Felicity Joseph,Ashley Woodward,Jack Reynolds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Existentialism
ISBN : 1472556739

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The Continuum Companion to Existentialism by Felicity Joseph,Ashley Woodward,Jack Reynolds Pdf

Author : Steven Crowell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521513340

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The Cambridge Companion to Existentialism by Steven Crowell Pdf

These essays demonstrate the contemporary vitality of existential thought, engaging critically with the main concepts and figures of existentialism.

Author : Robert L. Wicks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474272520

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Introduction to Existentialism by Robert L. Wicks Pdf

This textbook introduces you to existentialist philosophical theory and its cultural influence. The first part of the book offers an introductory overview of the 19th century historical roots of existentialist thought and chapters on all the key players: Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, de Beauvoir, and Camus. The second part presents a thematic approach, with chapters on Christian and Jewish existentialism, existentialism in America, existential psychology and existentialism in the cinema. Ideal for undergraduate and classroom use, this engaging and accessible textbook includes pedagogical features, such as study questions, chapter summaries, key definitions and further reading.

Author : Frederick Henry Heinemann
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1979-03-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780313211034

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Existentialism and the Modern Predicament by Frederick Henry Heinemann Pdf

Author : L. A. C. Dobrez
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472514677

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The Existential and its Exits by L. A. C. Dobrez Pdf

The book fills a significant gap in modern critical studies. Hitherto, there has been no considered attempt to relate Existentialist thought to contemporary literature – and this is precisely what Dr Dobrez achieves, taking four leading writers and discussing their work in relation to Husserl, Heidegger and Sartre. Readers will find this account enlightening in its discussion of Existentialism itself and its application of Existentialist principles in modern literature. Thus this book will be of great value to students of both contemporary literature and modern philosophy.

Author : John Daniel Wild
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1979-04-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780313211270

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The Challenge of Existentialism by John Daniel Wild Pdf

Author : Gary Cox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : 1350068489

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How to be an Existentialist by Gary Cox Pdf

The 10th anniversary edition of a witty classic about the philosophy of existentialism. It is also a genuine self-help book offering clear advice on how to live according to the principles of existentialism formulated by Nietzsche, Sartre, Camus, and the other great existentialist philosophers. An attack on contemporary excuse culture, the book urges us to face the hard existential truths of the human condition. By revealing that we are all inescapably free and responsible - 'condemned to be free,' as Sartre says - the book aims to empower the reader with a sharp sense that we are each the master of our own destiny. Cox makes fun of the reputation existentialism has for being gloomy and pessimistic, exposing it for what it really is - an honest, uplifting, and potentially life changing philosophy! This striking 10th anniversary edition with a substantial new preface includes more pointers on how to be a true existentialist, including how to be an existentialist at a time when environmental issues are becoming ever more pressing and our 'post-truth' world increasingly subjects us to the politically polarising power of simplistic social media.

Author : Gary Cox
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474235341

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Existentialism and Excess: The Life and Times of Jean-Paul Sartre by Gary Cox Pdf

Jean-Paul Sartre is an undisputed giant of twentieth-century philosophy. His intellectual writings popularizing existentialism combined with his creative and artistic flair have made him a legend of French thought. His tumultuous personal life - so inextricably bound up with his philosophical thinking - is a fascinating tale of love and lust, drug abuse, high profile fallings-out and political and cultural rebellion. This substantial and meticulously researched biography is accessible, fast-paced, often amusing and at times deeply moving. Existentialism and Excess covers all the main events of Sartre's remarkable seventy-five-year life from his early years as a precocious brat devouring his grandfather's library, through his time as a brilliant student in Paris, his wilderness years as a provincial teacher-writer experimenting with mescaline, his World War II adventures as a POW and member of the resistance, his post-war politicization, his immense amphetamine fueled feats of writing productivity, his harem of women, his many travels and his final decline into blindness and old age. Along the way there are countless intriguing anecdotes, some amusing, some tragic, some controversial: his loathing of crustaceans and his belief that he was being pursued by a giant lobster, his escape from a POW camp, the bombing of his apartment, his influence on the May 1968 uprising and his many love affairs. Cox deftly moves from these episodes to discussing his intellectual development, his famous feuds with Aron, Camus, and Merleau-Ponty, his encounters with other giant figures of his day: Roosevelt, Hemingway, Heidegger, John Huston, Mao, Castro, Che Guevara, Khrushchev and Tito, and, above all, his long, complex and creative relationship with Simone de Beauvoir. Existentialism and Excess also gives serious consideration to Sartre's ideas and many philosophical works, novels, stories, plays and biographies, revealing their intimate connection with his personal life. Cox has written an entertaining, thought-provoking and compulsive book, much like the man himself.

Author : Daniel Shaw
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474299282

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Movies with Meaning by Daniel Shaw Pdf

This book pairs close readings of some of the classic writings of existentialist philosophers with interpretations of films that reveal striking parallels to each of those texts, demonstrating their respective philosophies in action. Individual chapters include significant excerpts from the original texts being discussed and illustrated. Pairings cover Schopenhauer and Waking Life, Stirner and Hud, Kierkegaard and Winter Light, Nietzsche and The Fountainhead, Heidegger, Blade Runner and The Thin Red Line, Camus, Leaving Las Vegas and Missing, Sartre, Husbands and Wives, and Michael Collins, de Beauvoir and Revolutionary Road, and Foucault and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Movies with Meaning offers a clear and insightful examination of the relationships between existential philosophers and film, providing both digests of their most significant texts and cinematic illustrations of what each had in mind. For the first time in one place, this book analyses the implications for film of the perspectives of a wide array of the most significant existentialist thinkers. Organized chronologically, like most existentialism anthologies, this is an ideal textbook for an intermediate level existentialism course, or as a companion to a selection of primary texts.

Author : Hubert L. Dreyfus,Mark A. Wrathall
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1405110775

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A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism by Hubert L. Dreyfus,Mark A. Wrathall Pdf

A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism is a complete guide to two of the dominant movements of philosophy in the twentieth century. Written by a team of leading scholars, including Dagfinn Føllesdal, J. N. Mohanty, Robert Solomon, Jean-Luc Marion Highlights the area of overlap between the two movements Features longer essays discussing each of the main schools of thought, shorter essays introducing prominent themes, and problem-oriented chapters Organised topically, around concepts such as temporality, intentionality, death and nihilism Features essays on unusual subjects, such as medicine, the emotions, artificial intelligence, and environmental philosophy

Author : Gary Cox
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441189967

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The Existentialist's Guide to Death, the Universe and Nothingness by Gary Cox Pdf

The Existentialist's Guide to Death, the Universe and Nothingness is an entertaining philosophical guide to life, love, hate, freedom, sex, anxiety, God and death; a guide to everything and nothing. Gary Cox, bestselling author of How to Be an Existentialist and How to Be a Philosopher, takes us on an exciting journey through the central themes of existentialism, a philosophy of the human condition. The Existentialist's Guide fascinates, informs, provokes and inspires as it explores existentialism's uncompromising view of human reality. It leaves the reader with no illusions about how hard it is to live honestly and achieve authenticity. It has, however, a redeeming humour that sets the wisdom of the great existentialist philosophers alongside the wit of great musicians and comedians. A realistic self-help book for anyone interested in personal empowerment, The Existentialist's Guide offers a wealth of profound philosophical insight into life, the universe and everything.

Author : Steven Earnshaw
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441194992

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Existentialism: A Guide for the Perplexed by Steven Earnshaw Pdf

Existentialism is often studied by students with little or no background in philosophy; either as an introduction to the idea of studying philosophy or as part of a literary course. Although it is often an attractive topic for students interested in thinking about questions of 'self' or 'being', it also requires them to study difficult thinkers and texts. This Guide for the Perplexed begins with the question of 'What is Existentialism?' and then moves on to provide a brief analysis of the key thinkers, writers and texts - both philosophical and literary - central to existentialism. Chapters focus particularly on Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Sartre and Camus but also discuss other philosophers and writers such as Nietzsche, Dostoevsky and Kafka. The second section of the Guide introduces key topics associated with existentialist thought; Self, Consciousness, the question of God and Commitment. Each chapter explains the concepts and debates and provides guidance on reading and analysing the philosophical and literary texts addressed, focusing throughout on clarifying the areas students find most difficult