Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy 978-0-307-76108-8, 0307761088, 9780385031387, 0385031386

Widely recognized as the finest definition of existentialist Philosophy, this book introduced existentialism to America

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Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
978-0-307-76108-8, 0307761088, 9780385031387, 0385031386

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William Barrett

Table of contents :
Content: I. The present age. --
The advent of existentialism. --
The encounter with nothingness. --
The testimony of modern art. --
II. The sources of existentialism in the Western tradition. --
Hebraism and Hellenism. --
Christian sources. --
The flight from Laputa. --
III. The existentialists. --
Kierkegaard. --
Nietzsche. --
Heidegger. --
Sartre. --
IV. Integral vs. rational man. --
The place of the furies.

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