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_beng
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050 0 0 _aB819
_b.B34 1990
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100 1 _aBarrett, William,
_d1913-1992.
245 1 0 _aIrrational man :
_ba study in existential philosophy /
_cWilliam Barrett.
260 _aNew York :
_bAnchor Books, Doubleday
_c[1990]
300 _a305 p. ;
_c21 cm
500 _aOriginally published: New York : Doubleday, 1958.
500 _aIncludes index.
505 0 _aI. The present age. -- The advent of existentialism. -- The encounter with nothingness. -- The testimony of modern art. -- II. The sources of existentialism in the Western tradition. -- Hebraism and Hellenism. -- Christian sources. -- The flight from Laputa. -- III. The existentialists. -- Kierkegaard. -- Nietzsche. -- Heidegger. -- Sartre. -- IV. Integral vs. rational man. -- The place of the furies.
520 _aWidely recognized as the finest definition of existentialist Philosophy, this book introduced existentialism to America in 1958. Barrett discusses the views of 19th and 20th century existentialists Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre and interprets the impact of their thinking on literature, art, and philosophy. From the Trade Paperback edition.
650 0 _aExistentialism.
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