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The A to Z of Existentialism (Paperback)
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The A to Z of Existentialism (Paperback)
Series: The A to Z Guide Series
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Existentialism is the philosophy of human existence, which
flourished first in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s and then in
France in the decade following the end of World War II. The
operative meaning of existentialism here is thus broader than it
was circa 1945 when the term first gained currency in France as a
label for the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre. However, it is
considerably less broad than the view proposed by commentators in
the 1950s and 1960s who, in an attempt to overcome Sartre's
hegemony, discovered the seeds of existentialism far and wide: in
Shakespeare, Saint Augustine, and the Old Testament prophets. In
this dictionary, existentialism is understood as a decidedly
20th-century phenomenon, though with roots in the 19th century.
Effort has been made to understand the philosophy of
existentialism, as all philosophies should be understood, as part
of an ongoing intellectual tradition: an evolving history of
problems, concepts, and arguments. The A to Z of Existentialism
explains the central claims of existentialist philosophy and the
contexts in which it developed into one of the most influential
intellectual trends of the 20th century. This is done through a
chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and more than
300 cross-referenced dictionary entries offering clear, accessible
accounts of the life and thought of major existentialists like
Jean-Paul Sartre, Martin Heidegger, Martin Buber, Karl Jaspers,
Gabriel Marcel, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, and Maurice
Merleau-Ponty, as well as thinkers influential to its development
such as Wilhelm Dilthey, Henri Bergson, Edmund Husserl, and Max
Scheler. This book affords readers an integrated, critical, and
historically-sensitive understanding of this important
philosophical movement.
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