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Introducing Existentialism: A Graphic Guide

Introducing Existentialism: A Graphic Guide

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Series: Graphic Guides

Philosophy

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ISBN10: 1840462663
ISBN13: 9781840462661
Publisher: Icon Books
Published: Nov 5 2001
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.54 Depth: 8.28
Language: English
Pope Pius XII condemned Existentialism for its 'terrifying nihilism'. Anguish, despair, absurdity, nothingness...these still have a power to scandalise. Do we find in them the quintessence of Existentialism? Or has Existentialism's truth been eclipsed by its popular appeal? Richard Appignanesi begins with Camus and suicide: 'Must life have a meaning to be lived?' Is absurdity at the heart of Existentialism? Or is there a question as yet unexplored in Sartre - Existentialism, 'the least scandalous, most technically austere' of all teachings? The answer is found in Husserl's phenomenology, from which Heidegger, Sartre and others depart. We encounter Kierkegaard, Hegel, Marx and Nietzsche, and always in the background a history of dark times - our legacy of Nazism and the Cold War - overcasting the search. This is a book of undergoing Existentialism. Can it have meaning in our age of postmodern crisis?

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