The Existentialists: Critical Essays on Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and SartreThis volume brings together for the first time some of the most helpful and insightful essays on the four most influential and discussed philosophers in the history of existentialism: Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre. The contributors write on such topics as Kierkegaard's knight of faith and his diagnosis of the 'present age;' Nietzsche's view of morality and self-creation; Heidegger's accounts of worldhood and authenticity; and Sartre's ontology, ethics, and conception of the cogito. The essays have been selected for their higher level of scholarship and for their ability to illuminate various aspects of their subject's work. The volume is enhanced by the editor's introduction and extensive bibliography to aid further study. |
Contents
| 1 | |
KIERKEGAARD | 17 |
The Knight of Faith | 19 |
The Sickness unto Death Critique of the Modern Age | 33 |
NIETZSCHE | 51 |
A More Severe Morality Nietzsches Affirmative Ethics | 53 |
How One Becomes What One Is | 73 |
HEIDEGGER | 101 |
Becoming a Self The Role of Authenticity in Being and Time | 119 |
SARTRE | 133 |
Sartres Early Ethics and the Ontology of Being and Nothingness | 135 |
The Sartrean Cogito A Journey between Versions | 153 |
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About the Editor and Contributors | 181 |
Intentionality and World Division I of Being and Time | 103 |
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