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Situating Existentialism: Key Texts in Context
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Description for Situating Existentialism: Key Texts in Context
Hardback. Editor(s): Judaken, Jonathan; Bernasconi, Robert. Num Pages: 440 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HRAM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 454.
This anthology provides a history of the systemization and canonization of existentialism, a quintessentially antisystemic mode of thought. Situating existentialism within the history of ideas, it features new readings on the most influential works in the existential canon, exploring their formative contexts and the cultural dialogues of which they were a part. Emphasizing the multidisciplinary and global nature of existential arguments, the chosen texts relate to philosophy, religion, literature, theater, and culture and reflect European, Russian, Latin American, African, and American strains of thought. Readings are grouped into three thematic categories: national contexts, existentialism and religion, and transcultural migrations that ... Read more
This anthology provides a history of the systemization and canonization of existentialism, a quintessentially antisystemic mode of thought. Situating existentialism within the history of ideas, it features new readings on the most influential works in the existential canon, exploring their formative contexts and the cultural dialogues of which they were a part. Emphasizing the multidisciplinary and global nature of existential arguments, the chosen texts relate to philosophy, religion, literature, theater, and culture and reflect European, Russian, Latin American, African, and American strains of thought. Readings are grouped into three thematic categories: national contexts, existentialism and religion, and transcultural migrations that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
Number of Pages
440
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231147743
SKU
V9780231147743
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About Judaken
Jonathan Judaken is Spence L. Wilson Chair in Humanities at Rhodes College. He is the author of Jean-Paul Sartre and the Jewish Question: Anti-antisemitism and the Politics of the French Intellectual and the editor of Race After Sartre: Anti-racism, Africana Existentialism, Postcolonialism and Naming Race, Naming Racisms. Robert Bernasconi is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy at Penn ... Read more
Reviews for Situating Existentialism: Key Texts in Context
The essays are uniformly of high quality...highly recommended. Choice