EAN: 9780241645413

VARIOUS THE PENGUIN BOOK OF EXISTENTIALIST PHIL...

A powerful new anthology that redefines our understanding of existentialism and argues for its
contemporary relevance.  'Superb ... I can't imagine a better way of meeting the
existentialists in all their variety' - Sarah Bakewell  author of At the Existentialist Café  
'Existentialist thought [...] is an effort to reconcile the objective and the subjective  the
absolute and the relative  the timeless and the historical.' Simone de Beauvoir   In the
aftermath of the Second World War  a group of intellectuals gathered to discuss urgent
questions of existence  commitment  racism  colonialism  and feminism. Their ideas would
continue to shape those debates throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.  his major
new anthology gathers the key texts of existentialism  and their major intellectual influences
along with other works previously neglected in overviews and anthologies of the movement.
Incorporating the writings of Simone de Beauvoir  Jean-Paul Sartre and Frantz Fanon  alongside
selections from Søren Kierkegaard  Friedrich Nietzsche  Sigmund Freud and Martin Heidegger  it
significantly expands and redefines our understanding of what existentialism means  and why it
matters.  Edited with an Introduction by Jonathan Webber

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