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This fully revised and updated 2nd edition provides a comprehensive
reference guide to existentialism, featuring key chapters on key
existentialist thinkers, as well as chapters applying
existentialism to subject areas ranging across politics,
literature, feminism, religion, the emotions, cognitive science,
and poststructuralism. Contemporary developments in the field of
existentialism that speak to issues of identity and exclusion are
explored in 4 new chapters on race, gender, disability, and
technology, whilst the 5th new chapter new chapter outlines
analytic philosophy’s complicated relationship to existentialism.
Presenting the field of existentialism beyond the European
tradition, this edition also includes a new key thinker chapter on
Frantz Fanon, alongside Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre
and de Beauvoir, as well as new engagement with the work of
scholars on race and existentialism, including Lewis R. Gordon,
George Yancy, and Richard Wright. The resources section at the end
of the book includes an updated A to Z glossary, and timeline of
key events, texts and thinkers in existentialism, as well as a list
of relevant organisations, and an annotated guide to further
reading, making this 2nd edition an invaluable text for scholars
and students alike.
Bringing together a team of leading international scholars, this is
an accessibly one volume reference guide to the latest research and
future directions in Existentialism. "The Continuum Companion to
Existentialism" offers the definitive guide to a key area of modern
European philosophy. The book covers all the fundamental questions
asked by existentialism - areas that have continued to attract
interest historically as well as topics that have emerged more
recently as active areas of research. Eighteen specially
commissioned essays from an international team of experts reveal
where important work continues to be done in the area and, most
valuably, the exciting new directions the field is taking. The
Companion explores issues pertaining to the intersection between
existentialism and ontology / metaphysics, politics,
psychoanalysis, ethics, religion, aesthetics, sexuality, emotion,
cognitive science and post structuralism, as well as including full
coverage of the key existential thinkers. Featuring a series of
indispensable research tools, including an A to Z of key terms and
concepts, a chronology, a detailed list of resources and a fully
annotated bibliography, this is the essential reference tool for
anyone working in existentialism or modern European philosophy more
generally. "The Continuum Companions" series is a major series of
single volume companions to key research fields in the humanities
aimed at postgraduate students, scholars and libraries. Each
companion offers a comprehensive reference resource giving an
overview of key topics, research areas, new directions and a
manageable guide to beginning or developing research in the field.
A distinctive feature of the series is that each companion provides
practical guidance on advanced study and research in the field,
including research methods and subject-specific resources.
The Bloomsbury Companion to Existentialism is the definitive guide
to this key area of modern European philosophy. Now available in
paperback, the book covers the fundamental questions asked by
existentialism, providing valuable guidance for students and
researchers to some of the many important and enduring
contributions of existentialist thinkers. Chapters from an
international team of experts explore existentialism's relationship
to philosophical method; ontology; politics; psychoanalysis;
ethics; religion; literature; emotion; feminism and sexuality;
emotions; authenticity and the self; its significance in Latin
American culture; and its contribution to the development of
post-structuralism and cognitive science. In addition, five short
chapters summarize the status of canonical figures Kierkegaard,
Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre and de Beauvoir, delineating the
historical approach to their work, while pointing to new directions
contemporary research is now taking. Featuring a series of
indispensable research tools such as an A to Z glossary, a timeline
of key events, texts and thinkers in existentialism, a list of
resources, and an annotated guide to further reading, this
Companion is an essential resource to help the new reader navigate
through the heart of Existentialism and modern European philosophy.
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