1st Edition
The Development and Meaning of Twentieth-Century Existentialism
Edited By William L. McBride
Copyright 1997
394 Pages
by
Routledge
The Development and Meaning of Twentieth-Century Existentialism This volume recaptures, through the writings of figures already well-known in the mid-1940s, the coming-to-consciousness of the existentialist movement, along with early disagreements concerning its significance. The articles present various critics' shifting views of that significance and the movement's standing over subsequent... Read more
Series Introduction, Volume Introduction. Existential Philosophy, Existentialism: A Preface, What Is Existentialism?, Freedom and Existence in Some Recent Philosophies, From Existential Existentialism to Academic Existentialism, Existence and Communication, Existentialism as a Philosophy, Husserl's Phenomenology and Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism, Existential Universals, Existentialism and Existentialisms, Existential Philosophy: Resurgent Humanism, Existentialism Today, The Common Assumptions of Existentialist Philosophy, The Teaching of Existentialism, An Introduction to Patriarchal Existentialism Accompanied by a Proposal for a Way Out of Existential Patriarchy, The Roots of the Existentialist Theory of Freedom in Ideas I, Existentialism at the End of Modernity: Questioning the I's Eyes, On the Return of Existentialism to the Italian Debate, Acknowledgments
Biography
William L. McBride Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University, is co-founder of the North American Sartre Society, and the first chairperson of its executive board. His most recent publications include Social and Political Philosophy and Sartre's Political Theory. He was recently named Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques by the French Government, and has served as Chairperson of the Committee on International Cooperation of the American Philosophical Association and as President of the Society Americaine de Philosophie de Langue Francaise.
