Existentialism: A Reconstruction Paperback / softback - 1999
by David E. Cooper
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- Title Existentialism: A Reconstruction
- Author David E. Cooper
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 2nd Edition
- Condition New
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley-Blackwell, Williston, Vermont, U.S.A.
- Publication date 1999-06-25
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # A9780631213239
- ISBN 9780631213239 / 0631213236
- Weight 0.82 lbs (0.37 kg)
- Dimensions 8.96 x 6.02 x 0.65 in (22.76 x 15.29 x 1.65 cm)
- Category Philosophy
- Library of Congress subjects Existentialism
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98052529
- Dewey Decimal Code 142.78
- Quantity available 10
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First published in 1990, Existentialism is widely regarded as a classic introductory survey of the topic, and has helped to renew interest in existentialist philosophy.
Utilizing recently published primary sources, David E. Cooper provides a sympathetic, original account of a mainstream movement of philosophical thought, reconstructed from the best writing of Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and others. Existentialism is viewed as the attempt to"overcome" various forms of alienation: from the world, one another and oneself. The early chapters describe the existential phenomenology, on the basis of which the dualisms of Cartesian metaphysics are "dissolved". Discussions of the self and others, and of "Angst" and absurdity, lead into chapters on existential freedom and the prospects for an existentialist ethics. Writers discussed include Husserl, Jaspers, Buber, Marcel, and Ortega.
The author places existentialism within the great traditions of philosophy, and argues that it deserves as much attention from analytic philosophers as it has always received on the continent.
