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Existentialism / Richard Gravil.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Gravil, Richard.
Series:
Philosophy insights.
Philosophy insights
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Existentialism.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (97 p.)
Place of Publication:
Tirril [England] : Humanities-Ebooks, 2007.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
An exploration of the 20th Century Philosophy which claimed that' existence preceded essence', or, in effect, that men and women define their own being through their acts and choices.
Contents:
Intro
Copyright and Licence
Title Page
A Note on the Author
Contents
INTRODUCTION
The historical moment: Paris in Wartime
Existentialism comes into Existence
Existentialism and Philosophical Tradition
Existentialism and Phenomenology
ABANDONMENT, ABSURDITY, AMBIGUITY
Abandonment
The Absurd and Ambiguity
The 'They'
Dread
WHAT IS MAN?
Consciousness and Freedom
Being-in-itself and Being-for-itself
Bad Faith
Condemned to be Free
Facticity and Possibility
Being
Dasein, or there-being
Being-in-the-World
Care
Temporality
Death
Freedom-towards-death
WHAT CAN I KNOW?
Philosophical Authority
Subjective Truth
Values
Irony
Being-in-Truth
The Encompassing
The 'Question in the World'
Sartrean Solipsism
WHAT MUST I DO?
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Sublimation
The Will-to-Power
The Superman
The Choice of Existence
Despair
Choice of Self
The Project
Engagement
The Kingdom of Ends
Ends and Means
Sartre's Revolutionary Theory
The Threefold Living Relation
Biographies
1. SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
2. MARTIN HEIDEGGER
3. KARL JASPERS
4. SØREN KIERKEGAARD
5. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
6. JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
A GLOSSARY OF EXISTENTIALIST TERMS
Recommended Reading
Online Resources.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9786612040146
9781282040144
1282040146
9781847600110
1847600115
OCLC:
747819607

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