The Existentialist Reader: An Anthology of Key Texts (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780415936637)

The Existentialist Reader is a comprehensive anthology of classic philosophical writings from eight key existentialist thinkers: Sartre, Camus, Heidegger, de Beauvoir, Jaspers, Marcel, Merleau-Ponty, and Ortega y Gasset. These substantial and carefully selected readings consider the distinctive concerns of existentialism: absurdity, anxiety, alienation, death. A comprehensive introduction by Paul S. MacDonald illuminates the existentialist quest for individual freedom and authentic human experience with insight into the historical and intellectual background of these major figures. The Existentialist Reader is a valuable guide to the provocative theories that shook the philosophical world in the 1930s and continue to profoundly shape the way we think about ourselves.

Author: Paul S. MacDonald
ISBN-10: 0415936632
ISBN-13: 9780415936637
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 02/28/2001
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.69h x 6.85w x 0.74d