1st Edition
The Existentialist Reader An Anthology of Key Texts
Edited By Paul S. MacDonald
Copyright 2001
352 Pages
by
Routledge
352 Pages
by
Routledge
The Existentialist Reader is a comprehensive anthology of classic philosophical writings from eight key existentialist thinkers: Sartre, Camus, Heidegger, de Beauvoir, Jaspers, Marcel, Merleau-Ponty, and Ortega y Gasset. These substantial and carefully selected readings consider the distinctive concerns of existentialism: absurdity, anxiety, alienation, death. A comprehensive introduction by... Read more
Acknowledgements Introduction: background and themes 1. Philosophizing Starts with Our Situation (1932), Karl Jaspers (1883-1969) 2. On the Ontological Mystery (1933), Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973) 3. History as a System (1935), José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) 4. An Absurd Reasoning (1942), Albert Camus (1913-1960) 5. Reflections on the Cartesian Cogito (1945), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) 6. Letter on Humanism (1947), Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) 7. Ambiguity and Freedom (1947), Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) 8. A New, Authentic Way of Being Oneself (1948), Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) Index
Biography
Paul S. MacDonald is Lecturer in Philosophy at Murdoch University in Western Australia. He is the author of Descartes and Husserl: The Philosophical Project of Radical Beginnings (1999).
