| Edition |
Third edition. |
| Description |
xlvi, 187 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Terry lectures ; 1952
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Terry lectures.
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| Note |
Originally published: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1952. |
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Previous edition: New Haven ; London : Yale Nota Bene, 2000. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages xlvi) and index. |
| Contents |
1.Being and courage. Courage and fortitude : from Plato to Thomas Aquinas ; Courage and wisdom : the Stoics ; Courage and self-affirmation : Spinoza ; Courage and life : Nietzsche -- 2.Being, nonbeing, and anxiety. An ontology of anxiety ; Types of anxiety -- 3.Pathological anxiety, vitality, and courage. The nature of pathological anxiety ; Anxiety, religion, and medicine ; Vitality and courage -- 4.Courage and participation (the courage to be as a part). Being, individualization, and participation ; Collectivist and semicollectivist manifestations of the courage to be as a part ; The courage to be as a part in democratic conformism -- 5.Courage and individualization (the courage to be as oneself). The rise of modern individualism and the courage to be as oneself ; The Romantic and Naturalistic forms of the courage to be as oneself ; Existentialist forms of the courage to be as oneself ; Existentialism today and the courage of despair -- 6.Courage and transcendence (the courage to accept acceptance). The power of being as source of the courage to be ; The courage to be as the key to being-itself. |
| Summary |
The great Christian existentialist thinker Paul Tillich describes the dilemma of modern man and points a way to the conquest of the problem of anxiety. This edition includes a new introduction by Harvey Cox that situates the book within the theological conversation into which it first appeared and conveys its continued relevance in the current century. |
| Subject |
Courage.
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Courage. |
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Ontology.
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Ontology. |
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Anxiety.
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Anxiety. |
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Existentialism.
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Existentialism. |
| Added Author |
Cox, Harvey, 1929- writer of introduction.
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| ISBN |
9780300188790 (paperback) |
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030018879X (paperback) |
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