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The imminent philosopher and theologian examines religion in light of science and philosophy in modern society.
Originally published more than fifty years ago, The Courage to Be has become a classic of twentieth-century religious and philosophical thought. The great Christian existentialist thinker Paul Tillich describes the dilemma of modern man and points a way to the conquest of the prob-lem of anxiety. This edition includes a new...
Originally published more than fifty years ago, The Courage to Be has become a classic of twentieth-century religious and philosophical thought. The great Christian existentialist thinker Paul Tillich describes the dilemma of modern man and points a way to the conquest of the prob-lem of anxiety. This edition includes a new...
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Existentialism For Beginners is an entertaining romp through the history of a philosophical movement that has had a broad and enduring influence on Western culture. From the middle of the Nineteenth Century through the late Twentieth Century, existentialism informed our politics and art, and still exerts its influence today. Tracing the movement's beginnings with close-up views of seminal figures like Kierkegaard, Dostoyevsky and Nietzsche, Existentialism...
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Meridian books volume M39
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What is Existentialism? It is perhaps the most misunderstood of modern philosophic positions - misunderstood by reason of its broad popularity and general unfamiliarity with its origins, representatives, and principles. Existential thinking does not originate with Jean Paul Sartre. It has prior religious, literary, and philosophic origins. In its narrowest formulation it is a metaphysical doctrine, arguing as it does that any definition of man's essence...
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Widely recognized as the finest definition of existentialist philosophy ever written, this book introduced existentialism to America in 1958. Barrett speaks eloquently and directly to concerns of the 1990s: a period when the irrational and the absurd are no better integrated than before and when humankind is in even greater danger of destroying its existence without ever understanding the meaning of its existence.
Irrational Man begins by discussing...
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An Evergreen book volume E455
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Presents William Shakespeare's play "Hamlet" as viewed from the perspectives of the characters Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
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These three essays--originally written in the 1960s as lectures-- show how novels, poems, and plays confront the philosophical complexities of humanity's existence. Our self-awareness--the very thing that makes us human--also makes us realize our powerlessness and the limitations of our existence. This concept is explored in this thought-provoking guide and provides a jumping off point for this treatise on existentialism and literature. Davis D. McElroy...
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First published in 1882 and revised in 1887, "The Gay Science" was written at the peak of Nietzsche's intellectual abilities. It includes a large number of poems and an appendix of songs, all written with the intent of encouraging freedom of the mind. With praise for the benefits of science, intellectual discipline, and skepticism, "The Gay Science" also exhibits an enthusiastic affirmation of life, drawing from the influence of the Provencal tradition....
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Kierkegaard wasn't really a philosopher in the academic sense. Yet he produced what many people expect of philosophy. He didn't write about the world, he wrote about life, about how we live and how we choose to live. His subject was the individual and his or her existence, the “existing being.” In Kierkegaard's view, this purely subjective entity lay beyond the reach of reason, logic, philosophical systems, theology, or even “the pretenses of...
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German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche was one the most controversial figures of the 19th century. His evocative writings on religion, morality, culture, philosophy, and science were often polemic attacks against the established views of his time. First published in 1872, "The Birth of Tragedy" is the author's classic work on dramatic theory. It was the author's first published work in which he exhibited his enthusiasm for the dramatic works of Aeschylus...
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"La vieja y tradicional Lgica de Aristteles y Bacon ya no satisface a este mundo nuevo de la Cultura. En sta encontramos, ya no el mundo del "ser" sino fundamentalmente el mundo del "devenir"; ya no la ley "necesaria", sino la finalidad "contingente", ya no la simplicidad cuantitativa o cualitativa, sino el complejo biolgico y espiritual" -Dr. Adalberto Garca de Mendoza
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This book presents an analysis of how we are between what our imagination creates and nihilism, which is the non-existence of everything. The author explores science, religion, and philosophy as solutions to the meaning and purpose of life as well as the ideologies they create. The unique faculty of imagination in homo sapiens is part of the development of cognitive abilities throughout history, and any reality is an integration of experiences and...
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The French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was the major representative of the philosophical movement called "existentialism," and he remains by far the most famous philosopher, worldwide, of the post-World War Two era. This book will provide readers with all the help they will need to find their own way in Sartre's works. Author David Detmer provides a clear, accurate, and accessible guide to Sartre's work, introducing readers to all of...
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We challenge the nature of our truth. Truth in nature, and truth in science, is only relevant from the perspective of the participant. Our goal is to limit the ground clutter of human existence and to find bridges that direct us along the journey. "Those bridges should best lead us to our own version of heaven."
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La secular pregunta sobre la propia identidad es uno de los problemas básicos de la gente de hoy. ¿Quién soy? ¿Por qué existo? ¿Por qué soy como soy? Son preguntas que no pueden resolverse solo desde el mundo. Cada uno de nosotros experimenta su propio mundo, pero es un mundo que no hemos elegido. Nos encontramos ante una gran tarea de la que no debemos huir.
En contraste con las diversas imágenes modernas del hombre, Guardini muestra que...
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All of the work of Joseph Smalkowski, also known as the performer and philosophical rock poet, Copernicus, has been contained in four unpublished books, a thousand unpublished poems, and thirteen world internationally acclaimed philosophical art rock albums. In "Immediate Eternity," Copernicus goes brain first into the atomic and subatomic world, the world he calls MAGOVA, and struggles to extract a vision of reality and bring that vision back into...
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Designed for undergraduate and graduate study, 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...
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Existentialism is a philosophical school of thought unique in being based on feeling and experience rather than on the traditional foundations of philosophy. Many of its proponents have been atheists or can be considered opponents of religion. With this history, can there be such a thing as a Christian existentialism?
Dr. David Moffett-Moore believes there can be. In this book he outlines the basics of existentialist thought and a path to a Christian...
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An invaluable introduction to the leading French intellectual of the twentieth century. The Wisdom of Sartre offers key excerpts from the eloquent French writer, playwright, and philosopher's masterpiece, Being and Nothingness. From this collection, readers will discover the strongest themes in his early philosophical work: an ontological account of what it means to be human, and the role of perception, knowledge, and consciousness in the practical...
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An original reading of Nietzsche and Heidegger that paved the way for Vattimo's conception of weak thought.
In Beyond the Subject Gianni Vattimo offers a reading of Nietzsche and Heidegger that shows how the premises to overcome the metaphysical Subject were already embedded in their thought. Vattimo makes a case for a Nietzsche who is not concerned with the structure and glorification of the Overman, but rather with its opposite, by showing how...
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