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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      March 2012
      February 2012
      ISBN:
      9781139015066
      9780521513340
      9780521732789
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521513340
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.8kg, 428 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.68kg, 428 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History of Philosophy, Literature, Twentieth-Century Philosophy, European and World Literature: General Interest, Philosophy
      Series:
      Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
      Collection:
      The Cambridge Companions to Philosophy and Religion
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    Subjects:
    History of Philosophy, Literature, Twentieth-Century Philosophy, European and World Literature: General Interest, Philosophy
    Series:
    Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Collection:
    The Cambridge Companions to Philosophy and Religion
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    Existentialism exerts a continuing fascination on students of philosophy and general readers. 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. 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. A further sequence of chapters examines the influence of existential ideas beyond philosophy, in literature, religion, politics and psychiatry. The volume offers a rich and comprehensive assessment of the continuing vitality of existentialism as a philosophical movement and a cultural phenomenon.

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    'This volume will be most useful to students for the overview chapters, and for the substantial amount of discussion of Sartre’s ideas and political activities.'

    Michel Petheram Source: Reference Reviews

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