Existentialism : from Dostoevsky to Sartre / edited, with an introduction, prefaces, and new translations by Walter Kaufmann.

Existentialism is perhaps the most misunderstood of modern philosophic positions-- misunderstood by reason of its broad popularity and general unfamiliarity with its origins, representatives, and principles. Existential thinking did not originate with Jean Paul Sartre. It has prior religious, litera...

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Other Authors: Kaufmann, Walter, 1921-1980 (Editor, Translator)
Format: Government Document Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Meridian Books, 1956.
Series:Meridian books ; M39.
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Table of Contents:
  • Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre / Kaufmann
  • Notes from underground / Dostoevsky
  • On himself / Kierkegaard. On his mission ; On his works ; On his mode of existence ; "That individual"
  • "Live Dangerously" / Nietzsche. "The challenge of every great philosophy" ; "The gay science" ; On free death ; The beginning of The will to power ; From Ecce homo
  • The notes of Malte Laurids Brigge / Rilke
  • Three parables / Kafka. An imperial message ; Before the law ; Couriers
  • Existenzphilosophie / Jaspers. On my philosophy ; Kierkegaard and Nietzsche ; The encompassing
  • The way back into the ground of metaphysics / Heidegger
  • Existentialism / Sartre. The wall ; Self-deception ; Portrait of the antisemite ; Existentialism is a humanism
  • The myth of Sisyphus / Camus.