By Søren Kierkegaard

Walter Lowrie's vintage, bestselling translation of Søren Kierkegaard's most crucial and renowned books is still unequalled for its clarity and literary caliber. Fear and Trembling and The affliction Unto Death proven Kierkegaard because the father of existentialism and feature come to outline his contribution to philosophy. Lowrie's translation, first released in 1941 and later revised, used to be the 1st in English, and it has brought thousands of readers to Kierkegaard's inspiration. Kierkegaard counted Fear and Trembling and The ailment Unto Death between "the such a lot excellent books i've got written," and in them he introduces terms--"the absurd" and "despair"--that became keywords in smooth idea. Fear and Trembling takes up the tale of Abraham and Isaac to discover a religion that transcends the moral, persists within the face of the absurd, and meets its gift within the go back of all that the devoted one is prepared to sacrifice, whereas The affliction Unto Death examines the non secular anxiousness of despair.

Walter Lowrie's awesome translation of those seminal works maintains to supply an excellent advent to Kierkegaard. And, as Gordon Marino argues in a brand new creation, those books are as proper as ever in modern age of anxiety.

By Søren Kierkegaard, Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong

There is far to be realized philosophically from this quantity, yet philosophical guideline used to be no longer Kierkegaard's goal right here, other than within the wide feel of self-knowledge and deepened understanding. Indicating the goal of the discourses, the titles comprise "The Expectancy of Faith," "Love Will conceal a large number of Sins," "Strengthening within the internal Being," "To achieve One's Soul in Patience," "Patience in Expectancy," and "Against Cowardliness."

In tone and substance those works are in accord with the concluding phrases of encouragement in Either/Or, which used to be paired with the 1st quantity of discourses: "Ask your self and carry on asking till you discover the reply, for one could have recognized anything repeatedly, said it; one could have willed anything repeatedly, tried it--and but, basically the deep internal movement, purely the heart's indescribable emotion, basically that may persuade you that what you might have stated belongs to you, that no strength can take it from you--for simply the fact that builds up is fact for you."

By Marjorie Grene

By Jean-Paul Sartre

First released in France in 1937, this crucial essay marked a turning element in Sartre’s philosophical improvement. prior to writing it, he were heavily allied with phenomenologists similar to Husserl and Heidegger. the following, even though, Sartre attacked Husserl’s idea of a transcendental ego. The holiday with Husserl, in flip, facilitated Sartre’s transition from phenomenology to the existentialist doctrines of his masterwork, Being and Nothingness, which used to be accomplished many years later whereas the writer used to be a prisoner of war.This student-friendly variation of The Transcendence of the Ego additionally comprises an creation and notes/annotations through the translators.

By Lévinas, Emmanuel; Sartre, Jean-Paul; Lévinas, Emmanuel; Sealey, Kris; Sartre, Jean-Paul

Explores the moral and political implications of Levinas’s and Sartre’s bills of human existence.

In Moments of Disruption, Kris Sealey considers Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Paul Sartre jointly to totally detect the moral and political implications in their related descriptions of human life. targeting issues of touch and distinction among their writings on transcendence, id, lifestyles, and alterity, Sealey offers not just an realizing of Sartrean politics during which Levinas’s a little bit apolitical application may be taken into the political, but additionally an explicitly political examining of Levinas that resonates good with Sartre’s paintings. In bringing jointly either thinkers bills of disrupted life during this manner, a theoretical position is located from which to question the declare that politics and ethics are together exclusive. 

By M. Scott Peck

So compelling in its exploration of the human psyche, it is as tough to place down as a thriller...such a strength of strength, depth, and straightforwarness.

By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

This fabulous learn of the phases within the mind's priceless growth from instant sense-consciousness to the location of a systematic philosophy contains an introductory essay and a paragraph-by-paragraph research of the textual content to aid the reader comprehend this such a lot tricky and so much influential of Hegel's works.

By Thomas R. Flynn

Sartre and Foucault have been of the main renowned and from time to time together adversarial philosophical figures of the 20 th century. And nowhere are the antithetical natures in their existentialist and poststructuralist philosophies extra obvious than of their disparate techniques to historic realizing. In quantity considered one of this authoritative two-volume examine, Thomas R. Flynn performed a pivotal and complete reconstruction of Sartrean historic idea. This long-awaited moment quantity deals a complete and demanding analyzing of the Foucauldian counterpoint.

A historical past, theorized Foucault, may be one of those map, a entire charting of structural changes and displacements through the years. opposite to different Foucault students, Flynn proposes an "axial" instead of a developmental interpreting of Foucault's paintings. this enables elements of Foucault's well-known triad of data, strength, and the topic to emerge in each one of his significant works. Flynn maps existentialist different types throughout Foucault's "quadrilateral," the version that Foucault proposes as defining modernist conceptions of data. At stake is the measure to which Sartre's notion is totally captured by way of this mapping, no matter if he was once, as Foucault claimed, "a guy of the 19th century attempting to imagine within the twentieth."

By Steven Crowell

Steven Crowell has been for a few years a number one voice in debates on twentieth-century ecu philosophy. This quantity offers 13 fresh essays that jointly offer a scientific account of the relation among significant event (intentionality) and responsiveness to norms. They argue for a brand new knowing of the philosophical value of phenomenology, taking the paintings of Husserl and Heidegger as exemplary, and introducing a perception of phenomenology vast adequate to surround the practices of either philosophers. Crowell discusses Husserl's analyses of first-person authority, the semantics of wide awake adventure, the constitution of perceptual content material, and the embodied topic, and indicates how Heidegger's interpretation of the self addresses difficulties in Husserl's method of the normative constitution of which means. His quantity might be useful for upper-level scholars and students attracted to phenomenological techniques to philosophical questions in either the eu and the analytic traditions.

By Calvin Schrag

This e-book is a wonderful secondary resource to benefit extra approximately Kierkegaard and Heidegger. this article additionally dispels the various myths and misconceptions of existentialism.