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Record Nr.

UNINA9910969164203321

Autore

Gravil Richard

Titolo

Existentialism / / Richard Gravil

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tirril [England], : Humanities-Ebooks, 2007

ISBN

9786612040146

9781282040144

1282040146

9781847600110

1847600115

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (97 p.)

Collana

Philosophy insights

Disciplina

142.78

Soggetti

Existentialism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Copyright and Licence -- Title Page -- A Note on the Author -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- The historical moment: Paris in Wartime -- Existentialism comes into Existence -- Existentialism and Philosophical Tradition -- Existentialism and Phenomenology -- ABANDONMENT, ABSURDITY, AMBIGUITY -- Abandonment -- The Absurd and Ambiguity -- The 'They' -- Dread -- WHAT IS MAN? -- Consciousness and Freedom -- Being-in-itself and Being-for-itself -- Bad Faith -- Condemned to be Free -- Facticity and Possibility -- Being -- Dasein, or there-being -- Being-in-the-World -- Care -- Temporality -- Death -- Freedom-towards-death -- WHAT CAN I KNOW? -- Philosophical Authority -- Subjective Truth -- Values -- Irony -- Being-in-Truth -- The Encompassing -- The 'Question in the World' -- Sartrean Solipsism -- WHAT MUST I DO? -- The Marriage of Heaven and Hell -- Sublimation -- The Will-to-Power -- The Superman -- The Choice of Existence -- Despair -- Choice of Self -- The Project -- Engagement -- The Kingdom of Ends -- Ends and Means -- Sartre's Revolutionary Theory -- The Threefold Living Relation -- Biographies -- 1. SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR -- 2. MARTIN HEIDEGGER -- 3. KARL JASPERS -- 4. SØREN KIERKEGAARD -- 5. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE -- 6. JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -- A GLOSSARY OF EXISTENTIALIST TERMS --



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Sommario/riassunto

An exploration of the 20th Century Philosophy which claimed that' existence preceded essence', or, in effect, that men and women define their own being through their acts and choices.