Sartre, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, de Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty and Camus. These were some of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and the key existentialist thinkers. This Very Short Introduction provides an accessible account of the existentialist movement, and of the themes of individuality, free will, and personal responsibility which make it a 'philosophy as a way of life'.
Thomas Flynn's pithy account of existentialism and the existentialist movement aims right at the core of the philosophy, revealing and explaining the key themes and key thinkers.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 1: Philosophy as a Way of Life
- 2: Becoming an Individual
- 3: Humanism, For and Against
- 4: Authenticity
- 5: A Chastened Individualism? Existentialism and Social Thought
- 6: What is Living and What is Dead in Existentialist Thought?
