The Cambridge companion to existentialism

Crowell, Steven Galt, (editor of compilation.).

Record details

ISBN: 9780521732789 (paperback)
ISBN: 9780521513340 (hardback)
ISBN: 0521513340 (hardback)
ISBN: 0521732786 (paperback)
Physical Description: print
xii, 412 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Copyright: ©2013

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-406) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Existentialism and its legacy / Steven Crowell -- Existentialism as a philosophical movement / David E. Cooper -- Existentialism as a cultural movement / William McBride -- Kierkegaard's single individual and the point of indirect communication / Alastair Hannay -- 'What a monster then is man ': Pascal and Kierkegaard on being a contradictory self and what to do about it / Hubert L. Dreyfus -- Nietzsche : after the death of God / Richard Schacht -- Nietzsche : selfhood, creativity, and philosophy / Lawrence J. Hatab -- Heidegger : the existential analytic of Dasein / William Blattner -- The antinomy of being : Heidegger's critique of humanism / Karsten Harries -- Sartre's existentialism and the nature of consciousness / Steven Crowell -- Political existentialism : the career of Sartre's political thought / Thomas R. Flynn -- Simone de Beauvoir's existentialism : freedom and ambiguity in the human world / Kristana Arp -- Merleau-Ponty on body, flesh, and visibility / Taylor Carman -- Existentialism as literature / Jeff Malpas -- Existentialism and religion / Merold Westphal -- Racism is a system : how existentialism became dialectical in Fanon and Sartre / Robert Bernasconi -- Existential phenomenology, psychiatric illness, and the death of possibilities / Matthew Ratcliffe and Matthew Broome.