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Conrad's Existentialism (Hardcover)
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Conrad's Existentialism (Hardcover)
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This study of the philosophical aspects of Conrad's novels offers
evidence that the works exhibit a powerful existential strain,
foreshadowing many central concerns of 20th-century modernism. The
author reveals that Conrad's fiction is replete with ideas from
Sartre, Camus, Jaspers, Marcel, Heidegger, Kierkegaard and
Nietzsche. Like Camus, Conrad suggests that man, thrown by chance
into an absurd universe, must rebel against the condition of mere
functionalism induced by circumbient obstacles which include other
people, who should be used to enhance one's life through
existential commitment, fidelity and communication. The author
points out Conrad's emphasis on the supremacy of emotions over
abstract rationality, with particular stress on feelings such as
alienation, despair, anxiety and nausea - and their conquest by
Heideggerian resolve that is able to transcend nihilism and provide
a personal sense of self-justification.
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