The Existentialist Reader: An Anthology of Key Texts / Edition 1

by Paul S. MacDonald

Overview

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415936705
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/28/2001
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Paul S. MacDonald is Lecturer in Philosophy at Murdoch University in Western Australia. He is the author of Descartes and Husserl: The Philosophical Project of Radical Beginnings (1999).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction: background and themes 1. Philosophizing Starts with Our Situation (1932), Karl Jaspers (1883-1969) 2. On the Ontological Mystery (1933), Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973) 3. History as a System (1935), José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) 4. An Absurd Reasoning (1942), Albert Camus (1913-1960) 5. Reflections on the Cartesian Cogito (1945), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) 6. Letter on Humanism (1947), Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) 7. Ambiguity and Freedom (1947), Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) 8. A New, Authentic Way of Being Oneself (1948), Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) Index