Situating Existentialism - Key Texts in Context

Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Judaken is Spence L. Wilson Chair in Humanities at Rhodes College. He is the author of Jean-Paul Sartre and the Jewish Question: Anti-antisemitism and the Politics of the French Intellectual and the editor of Race After Sartre: Anti-racism! Africana Existentialism! Postcolonialism and Naming Race! Naming Racisms. Robert Bernasconi is the Sparks Professor of Philosophy at Penn State University and the author of two books on Heidegger. His most recent publication is How to Read Sartre. He has edited or coedited numerous collections on Levinas! including The Cambridge Companion to Levinas! and on the critical philosophy of race! including Race. Klappentext This anthology provides a history of the systemization and canonization of existentialism! a quintessentially antisystemic mode of thought. Situating existentialism within the history of ideas! it features new readings on the most influential works in the existential canon! exploring their formative contexts and the cultural dialogue of which they were part. Emphasizing the multidisciplinary and global nature of existential arguments! chosen texts relate to philosophy! religion! literature! theater! and culture and reflect European! Russian! Latin American! African! and American strains of thought. Designed to speak to a new generation's concerns! this collection utilizes a diverse range of voices to interrogate the fundamental questions of the human condition. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction! by Jonathan JudakenPart I: (Trans)National Contexts1. Russian Existentialism! or Existential Russianism! by Val Vinokur2. German Existentialism and the Persistence of Metaphysics: Weber! Jaspers! Heidegger! by Peter E. Gordon3. Sisyphus's Progeny: Existentialism in France! by Jonathan Judaken4. "To Punch Through 'Pasteboard Masks'?": American Existentialism! by George Cotkin5. Angst Across the Channel: Existentialism in Britain! by Martin Woessner6. Existentialisms in the Hispanic and Latin American Worlds: El Quixote and its Existential ChildrenPart II: Existentialism and Religion7. Fear and Trembling and the Paradox of Christian Existentialism! by George Pattison8. Jewish Co-Existentialism: Being with the Other! by Paul Mendes-Flohr9. Camus the Unbeliever: Living Without God! by Ronald AronsonPart III: Migrations10. Anxiety and Secularization: Soren Kierkegaard and the Twentieth-Century Invention of Existentialism! by Samuel Moyn11. Rethinking the 'Existential' Nietzsche in German: Lowith! Jaspers! Heidegger! by Charles Bambach Charles Bambach12. Situating Frantz Fanon's Account of Black Experience! by Robert Bernasconi 13. Simone de Beauvoir in her Times and Ours: The Second Sex and its Legacy in French Feminist Thought! by Debra Bergoffen14. The "Letter on Humanism": Reading Heidegger in France! by Ethan Kleinberg ...

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• Authors: Judaken, Jonathan Judaken, Jonathan Bernasconi Judaken
• Assisted by: Robert Bernasconi (Editor), Bernasconi Robert (Editor), Jonathan Judaken (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2012
• EAN: 9780231147750
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14775-0
• No. of pages: 440
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism, Religious issues and debates