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Existential America / George Cotkin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cotkin, George, 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Existentialism--United States--History--20th century.
- Existentialism.
- Philosophy, American--20th century.
- Philosophy, American.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- x, 359 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The 'drizzly November' of the American soul
- Kierkegaard comes to America
- A Kierkegaardian age of anxiety
- The vogue of French existentialism
- New York intellectuals and French existentialists
- The canon of existentialism
- 'Cold rage' : Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison
- Norman Mailer's existential errand
- Robert Frank's existential vision
- Camus's rebels
- Existential feminists : Simon de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan
- Conclusion : existentialism today and tomorrow.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-328) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0801870372
- OCLC:
- 48507579
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