First published in 1990," Existentialism" is widely regarded as a
classic introductory survey of the topic, and has helped to renew
interest in existentialist philosophy.
Utilizing recently published primary sources, David E. Cooper
provides a sympathetic, original account of a mainstream movement
of philosophical thought, reconstructed from the best writing of
Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and others. Existentialism is
viewed as the attempt to"overcome" various forms of alienation:
from the world, one another and oneself. The early chapters
describe the existential phenomenology, on the basis of which the
dualisms of Cartesian metaphysics are "dissolved." Discussions of
the self and others, and of "Angst" and absurdity, lead into
chapters on existential freedom and the prospects for an
existentialist ethics. Writers discussed include Husserl, Jaspers,
Buber, Marcel, and Ortega.
The author places existentialism within the great traditions of
philosophy, and argues that it deserves as much attention from
analytic philosophers as it has always received on the
continent.
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