books about: existentialists

books about: existentialists

books:

Existentialists

The Transcendence of the Ego: An Existentialist Theory of Consciousness
Jean-Paul Sartre

Noonday, 1965

Softcover

Introducing the Existentialists

Robert C. Solomon

Hackett Publishing Company, 1981

A short subjective Summary
In the short imaginary interviews conducted by Solomon in Introducing The Existentialists, I quickly discovered that Existentialism is a far more profound and in-depth philosophy then I had first interpreted it to be. To me, Existentialism has been the baseless ness of ...

The Transcendence of the Ego: An Existentialist Theory of Consciousness

Jean-Paul Sartre

Hill and Wang, 1991

mind blowing
transcending the ego, is the state to which 'organized' religions preach, whether christian, jew, muslim, hindu, buddhist, shamin. this little book is so deep, with so few words, it is astounding. read this and the second half of Flatlander by Abbott.

The Existentialist Reader: An Anthology of Key Texts

Paul Macdonald

Routledge, 2001

A Valuable Book.
This is a very insightful and concise anthology that may serve as a bible for those entering the world of existentialism and phenomenology; also, for those who already have a fundamental grasp of existential themes and existential ontology this book serves to both ...

Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature

Iris Murdoch

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1999

Almost all of Murdoch's philosophizing in a single package
Except for Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals, which is disorganized and verges on the incoherent, almost all of Murdoch's explicitly philosophical writing is here. So if you are going to be working on Murdoch's philosophy, this is a resource you need to have. ...

What Do Existentialists Believe?
Richard Appignanesi

Granta Books, 2006

Existentialist Ethics (Sartre and Existentialism: Philosophy, Politics, Ethics, the Psyche, Literature, and ...
W. Mcbride

Routledge, 1996

Existentialist Ethics Ethics was Sartre's principal concern, beginning with his famous and complex treatment of "bad faith" in Being and Nothingness, and continuing through his massive posthumously-published Notebooks for an Ethics of the late 1940's, and his mostly unpublished lecture notes that date back to 1964. This volume contains highly ...

Sartre, Foucault, and Historical Reason, Volume One: Toward an Existentialist Theory of History (Sartre, ...

Thomas R. Flynn

University Of Chicago Press, 1997

The Truth about Foucault and Sartrean Marxism
Flynn, a professor at Emory does a really nice job at elucidating a common problem. Foucault is casually lumped together in the structuralist/post-structuralis school because of his association with Althusser and Lacan. While that particular methodology is obviously ...

From Rationalism to Existentialism: The Existentialists and Their Nineteenth-century Backgrounds
Robert C. Solomon

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2001

In this enduring text, renowned philosopher Robert C. Solomon provides students with a detailed introduction to modern existentialism. He reveals how this philosophy not only connects with, but also derives from, the thought of traditional philosophers through the works of Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty.