| Description |
437 pages ; 21 cm |
| Series |
Citadel ; C-246 |
| Contents |
The humanism of existentialism -- Freedom and responsibility -- The desire to be God -- The question -- Negations -- The dialectical concept of nothingness -- The origin of nothingness -- Bad faith and falsehood -- Patterns of bad faith -- The "faith" of bad faith -- The classical theories -- The psychoanalytic theory -- A sketch of a phenomenological theory -- Conclusion -- The symbol -- Symbolic schemes and illustrations of thought -- Image and thought -- Image and perception -- What is writing? -- The Venetian Pariah -- The quest for the absolute -- The paintings of Giacometti -- The mobiles of Calder |
| Summary |
Examination of human consciousness; philosophy, metaphysics, semantics, existentialism |
| Notes |
Original title: The philosophy of existentialism |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 423-431 |
| Subject |
Existentialism.
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| Author |
Baskin, Wade, editor
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| LC no. |
ace00100716 |
| ISBN |
0806501626 (1993 pbk) |
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