Author: Christine Daigle
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press
Keywords: ethics, thinkers, existentialist
Number of Pages: 187
Published: 2006-11
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0773531386
ISBN-13: 9780773531383

Twentieth-century existential thinkers, critical of traditional, overly rationalistic approaches to ethics, sought to provide a better account of what it means to be human in the world. They articulated ethical views that respected the individual yet were fundamentally concerned with the Other and the ethical value of an authentic life. Their philosophy has often been dismissed as unsuccessful. Through examination of the thought of eight key figures in existentialism - Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Arendt, Camus, Sartre, Beauvoir, and Merleau-Ponty - this collection demonstrates that such

Author: Harold John Blackham
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: thinkers, existentialist, six
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1983-01-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0415050987
ISBN-13: 9780415050982

Includes summary but substantial accounts of the thought of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Jaspers, Marcel, Heidegger and Sartre, and a concluding essay that attempts to interpret the whole Existentialist movement.

Authors:Don Crewe, Ronnie Lippens,
Publisher: Routledge-Cavendish
Keywords: criminology, existentialist
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2009-02-12
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 0415467713
ISBN-13: 9780415467711

Existentialist Criminology captures an emerging interest in the value of existentialist thought and concepts for criminological work on crime, deviance, crime control, and criminal justice. This emerging interest chimes with recent social and cultural developments - as well as shifts in their theoretical consideration - that are oriented around contingency and unpredictability. But whilst these conditions have largely been described and analysed through the lens of complexity theory, post-structuralist theory and postmodernism, there exploration by critical criminologists in existentialist t

Author: Paul S. MacDonald
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: texts, key, anthology, reader, existentialist
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2001-02-28
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 0415936632
ISBN-13: 9780415936637

The Existentialist Reader is a comprehensive anthology of classic philosophical writings from eight key existentialist thinkers: Sartre, Camus, Heidegger, de Beauvoir, Jaspers, Marcel, Merleau-Ponty, and Ortega y Gasset. These substantial and carefully selected readings consider the distinctive concerns of existentialism: absurdity, anxiety, alienation, death. A comprehensive introduction by Paul S. MacDonald illuminates the existentialist quest for individual freedom and authentic human experience with insight into the historical and intellectual background of these major figures. The Exist

Author: William L. McBride
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: literature, aesthetics, ethics, psyche, politics, existentialism, sartre, existentialist, philosophy
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 1996-12
List price: $165.00
ISBN-10: 0815324979
ISBN-13: 9780815324973

Author: Thomas R. Flynn
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: reason, history, foucault, sartre, amp, theory, volume, historical, one, existentialist
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 1997-09-02
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0226254682
ISBN-13: 9780226254685

Sartre and Foucault were two of the most prominent and at times mutually antagonistic philosophical figures of the twentieth century. And nowhere are the antithetical natures of their existentialist and poststructuralist philosophies more apparent than in their disparate approaches to historical understanding. A history, thought Foucault, should be a kind of map, a comparative charting of structural transformations and displacements. But for Sartre, authentic historical understanding demanded a much more personal and committed narrative, a kind of interpretive diary of moral choices and risks