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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Barrett, William, 1915- Irrational man; a study in existential philosophy. New York, Doubleday, 1958 (OCoLC)646980878 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
William Barrett |
OCLC Number: | 14597959 |
Description: | 278 pages 22 cm. |
Contents: | pt. 1. The present age -- The advent of existentialism -- The encounter with nothingness -- The testimony of modern art -- pt. 2. The sources of existentialism in the Western tradition -- Hebraism and Hellenism -- Christian sources -- The flight from Laputa -- pt. 3. The existentialists -- Kierkegaard -- Nietzsche -- Heidegger -- Sartre -- pt. 4. Integral vs. rational man -- The place of the furies -- Appendices -- Negation, finitude, and the nature of man -- Existence and analytic philosophers. |
Series Title: | Doubleday anchor books. |
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Pt. 1. The present age -- The advent of existentialism -- The encounter with nothingness -- The testimony of modern art -- pt. 2. The sources of existentialism in the Western tradition -- Hebraism and Hellenism -- Christian sources -- The flight from Laputa -- pt. 3. The existentialists -- Kierkegaard -- Nietzsche -- Heidegger -- Sartre -- pt. 4. Integral vs. rational man -- The place of the furies -- Appendices -- Negation, finitude, and the nature of man -- Existence and analytic philosophers.
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