1st Edition
In Search of Authenticity Existentialism from Kierkegaard to Camus
By Jacob Golomb
Copyright 1995
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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Great philosophers such as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Sartre have clearly been preoccupied by the possibility of authenticity. In this study, Jacob Golomb looks closely at the literature and writings of these philosophers in his analysis of their ethics. Golomb's writings shows his passionate commitment to the quest for the authenticity - particularly in our climate of post-modern scepticism.... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Authenticity, Sincerity and Honesty; Chapter 2 Authenticity, Literature and Irony; Chapter 3 Kierkegaard's Ironic Ladder to Authentic Faith; Chapter 4 Nietzsche's Pathos of Authenticity; Chapter 5 Heidegger's Ontology of Authenticity; Chapter 6 Sartre: from Phenomenological Ontology to Psychoanalysis and Politics; Chapter 7 Camus's Return to Authentic Human Morality; conclusion Conclusion: Authenticity and Ethics;
Biography
Jacob Golomb is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is author of Nietzsche's Enticing Philosophy of Power (1989) and Introduction to the Philosophies of Existence (1990)
