Author: Alphonso Lingis
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: existential, phenomenology, philosophy, studies, theories, french, libido
Number of Pages: 148
Published: 1986-02-22
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0253334152
ISBN-13: 9780253334152

Alphonso Lingis’s engaging book studies the phenomenological and postphenomenological theories of sexuality of six contemporary French philosophers: Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-François Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari. After centuries of philosophical silence on the matter, these writers, during the last fory years, have undertaken the first extended exploration of human sexuality in Western philosophical literature. Lingis presents the a

Author: Sunder Das
Publisher: IUniverse
Keywords: encounters, existential
Number of Pages: 150
Published: 2003-09-11
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0595294383
ISBN-13: 9780595294381

The first part of this book contains a new system of existential psychotherapy illustrated by a few case studies. The Second Section entitled Gallimaufry is a selection of articles on various topics.

Author: George Cotki
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Pre
Keywords: america, existential
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2005-03-25
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0801882001
ISBN-13: 9780801882005

Europe’s leading existential thinkers -- Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Albert Camus -- all felt that Americans were too self-confident and shallow to accept their philosophy of responsibility, choice, and the absurd. "There is no pessimism in America regarding human nature and social organization," Sartre remarked in 1950, while Beauvoir wrote that Americans had no "feeling for sin and for remorse" and Camus derided American materialism and optimism. Existentialism, however, enjoyed rapid, widespread, and enduring popularity among Americans. No less than their European counte

Author: George Cotkin
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: america, existential
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2002-12-23
List price: $47.00
ISBN-10: 0801870372
ISBN-13: 9780801870378

Europe’s leading existential thinkers--Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Albert Camus--all felt that Americans were too self-confident and shallow to accept their philosophy of responsibility, choice, and the absurd. "There is no pessimism in America regarding human nature and social organization," Sartre remarked in 1950, while Beauvoir wrote that Americans had no "feeling for sin and for remorse" and Camus derided American materialism and optimism. Existentialism, however, enjoyed rapid, widespread, and enduring popularity among Americans. No less than their European coun

Author: Irvin D. Yalom
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: psychotherapy, existential
Number of Pages: 524
Published: 1980-12-08
List price: $54.00
ISBN-10: 0465021476
ISBN-13: 9780465021475

The noted Stanford University psychiatrist distills the essence of a wide range of therapies into a masterful, creative synthesis, opening up a new way of understanding each person’s confrontation with four ultimate concerns: isolation, meaninglessness, death, and freedom.

Author: Mick Cooper
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Keywords: therapies, existential
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2003-05-27
List price: $51.95
ISBN-10: 0761973214
ISBN-13: 9780761973218

Strathclyde Univ., UK. Text provides an overview of the existential therapeutic practices focusing on face-to-face work with clients. Discusses key figures and their contributions including Yalom, van Deurzen, Spinelli, Frankl, and Laing. Compares and contrasts various approaches, highlighting areas of commonality and difference. Softcover, hardcover available.

Author: Michael Lumsde
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: structure, sentences, existential
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1990-08-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0415053005
ISBN-13: 9780415053006

This study attempts to account for the relationship between the structure of existential sentences (ES) and their meaning. The book begins by considering the syntactic structure of ES and showing how the derivation of these sentences is compatible with general principles that have been proposed within recent versions of transformational grammar. The central chapters concentrate on the range of semantic restrictions pointed out by Milsark. After reviewing a number of approaches to the classification of quantifiers, Lumsden develops an account based on the presuppositional properties of differen