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Informationen zum Autor Colin Smith is Dean of Mission Education at the Church Mission Society and teaches on the MA in Mission and Anthropology. Klappentext First published in 1964, this is not just a chronicle or encyclopaedia, but deals thoroughly in turn with meaning, view about reason, and views about values, particularly moral values. The author's knowledge of French literature if extensive and thorough, and a feature of the book is his analysis of the philosophical implications of literarry wroks by Sartre, Paul Valery, Camus and others. Zusammenfassung First published in 1964, this is not just a chronicle or encyclopaedia, but deals thoroughly in turn with meaning, view about reason, and views about values, particularly moral values. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface, Introduction, ONE: THE SEARCH FOR SIGNIFICANCE, 1. Absurdity. The gulf between man and his world. Camus, 2. Transcendence. The pursuit of meaning as a necessary but ‘useless passion’. Sartre, 3. Participation. A vindication of being-in-itself as meaningful. Louis Lavelle, TWO: THE ROLE OF REASON AND THE CONCEPT, 4. As mediation between subject and object. Alquié, 5. As an assimilating force within the world. André Lalande, 6. As a dissimilating force for the production of new meanings. Gaston Bachelard and E.Morot-Sir, 7. The concept as expression. The extraction of provisional meanings from the permanently indeterminate. Merleau-Ponty, 8. The rejection of ‘expressionism’. The ‘logos’ as the ‘rule’ of thought. Brice Parain, THREE: NORMS AND VALUES, 9. Closed and open evolutionary morality. Bergson’s The Two Sources, 10. Involutionary morality. André Lalande, 11. The creation of values. Raymond Polin, 12. The contingency of value. Vladimir Jankélévitch, 13. Detail and atmosphere. René Le Senne, FOUR: NORMS AND VALUES, 14. The instant, 15. Choice, 16. The authentic and the everyday. Camus, 17. Universality and particularity, 18. Saint-Exupéry, Conclusion, Bibliography, Index...
