Name: Basic Writings of Existentialism
ISBN: 9780375759895

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Meaning, Unsettled

These influential existentialist writings ask what it means to make meaning for yourself.

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Questions of meaning without easy answers
A gathering of major existentialist thinkers, from Kierkegaard to de Beauvoir

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Nineteenth- and twentieth-century writings in one volume
Philosophical ideas alongside literary voices

Book Details

Authors: Gordon Marino
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: April 13, 2004
Format: Print & ebook
Theme: Existential Approaches · 20th-Century Literary Criticism
Reading lane: Existential Approaches

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19th-Century History
Existentialism
Philosophy Resources

About This Book

Edited and with an Introduction by Gordon Marino Basic Writings of Existentialism, unique to the Modern Library, presents the writings of key nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers broadly united by their belief that because life has no inherent meaning humans can discover, we must determine meaning for ourselves. This anthology brings together into one volume the most influential and commonly taught works of existentialism. Contributors include Simone de Beauvoir, Alber...

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Edited and with an Introduction by Gordon Marino Basic Writings of Existentialism, unique to the Modern Library, presents the writings of key nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers broadly united by their belief that because life has no inherent meaning humans can discover, we must determine meaning for ourselves. This anthology brings together into one volume the most influential and commonly taught works of existentialism. Contributors include Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ralph Ellison, Martin Heidegger, Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo.