Description |
219 pages ; 22 cm |
Series |
Problems of modern European thought |
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Problems of modern European thought.
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Contents |
1. Authenticity, sincerity and honesty -- 2. Authenticity, literature and irony -- 3. Kierkegaard's ironic ladder to authentic faith -- 4. Nietzsche's pathos of authenticity -- 5. Heidegger's ontology of authenticity -- 6. Sartre: from phenomenological ontology to psychoanalysis and politics -- 7. Camus's return to authentic human morality -- Conclusion: Authenticity and ethics |
Summary |
Personal authenticity is out of fashion amongst analytic philosophers. Yet, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre and Camus were clearly preoccupied by its theoretical and practical viability. In this study, Jacob Golomb illuminates the writings of these philosophers in an attempt to explain their particular ethical stance on the subject. This book will prove invaluable reading for students and teachers of philosophy, literature and education and indeed for anyone who has ever empathized with Camus's Meursault, Sartre's Matthieu or Nietzsche's Zarathustra |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-211) and index |
Subject |
Authenticity (Philosophy)
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Existential ethics.
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LC no. |
94043130 |
ISBN |
0415119464 |
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0415119472 (paperback) |
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