| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 432 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1 (Trans)national Contexts -- 1. Russian Existentialism, or Existential Russianism / Val Vinokur -- 2. German Existentialism and the Persistence of Metaphysics: Weber, Jaspers, Heidegger / Peter E. Gordon -- 3. Sisyphus's Progeny: Existentialism in France / Jonathan Judaken -- 4. Punching Through the Pasteboard Masks: American Existentialism / George Cotkin -- 5. Angst Across the Channel: Existentialism in Britain / Martin Woessner -- 6. Existentialisms in the Hispanic and Latin American Worlds: El Quixote and Its Existential Children / Eduardo Mendieta -- pt. 2 Existentialism and Religion -- 7. Fear and Trembling and the Paradox of Christian Existentialism / George Pattison -- 8. Jewish Co-Existentialism: Being with the Other / Paul Mendes-Flohr -- 9. Camus the Unbeliever: Living Without God / Ronald Aronson -- pt. 3 Migrations -- 10. Anxiety and Secularization: Søren Kierkegaard and the Twentieth-Century Invention of Existentialism / Samuel Moyn -- 11. Rethinking the "Existential" Nietzsche in Germany: Lowith, Jaspers, Heidegger / Charles Bambach -- 12. Situating Frantz Fanon's Account of Black Experience / Robert Bernasconi -- 13. Simone de Beauvoir in Her Times and Ours: The Second Sex and Its Legacy in French Feminist Thought / Debra Bergoffen -- 14. The "Letter on Humanism": Reading Heidegger in France / Ethan Kleinberg. |
| Summary |
Designed for undergraduate and graduate study, this anthology provides a history of the systemization and canonization of existentialism, a quintessentially antisystemic mode of thought. Situating existentialism within the history of ideas, it features new readings on the most influential works in the existential canon, exploring their formative contexts and the cultural dialogue of which they were part. Emphasizing the multidisciplinary and global nature of existential arguments, chosen texts relate to philosophy, religion, literature, theater, and culture and reflect European, Ru. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Existentialism.
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Existentialism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Judaken, Jonathan, 1968- editor.
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Bernasconi, Robert, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Situating existentialism. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2012 9780231147743 (DLC) 2012001709 (OCoLC)775411509 |
| ISBN |
9780231519670 (electronic book) |
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0231519672 (electronic book) |
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9780231147743 |
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0231147740 |
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9780231147750 |
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0231147759 |
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