Overview
The Continuum Companion to Existentialism offers the definitive guide to a key area of modern European philosophy. The book covers the fundamental questions asked by existentialism, providing valuable guidance for students and researchers to some of the many important and enduring contributions of existentialist thinkers. Specially commissioned essays from an international team of experts explore existentialism's relationship to philosophical method; ontology; politics; psychoanalysis; ethics; religion; literature; emotion; feminism and sexuality; cognitive science; authenticity and the self; its significance in Latin American culture; and its contribution to the development of Poststructuralism. In addition, five short chapters summarise the status of canonical figures Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre and de Beauvoir, delineating the historical approach to their work, while pointing to new directions such research is now taking. Companion is an essential tool to help the new reader navigate through the heart of Existentialism and modern European philosophy. Featuring a series of indispensable research tools (A to Z of terms, concepts and thinkers; timeline of existentialism; list of resources and an annotated guide to further reading), this
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Author: Dr Felicity Joseph (University of New England, Australia) ,
Dr Jack Reynolds (Deakin University, Australia) ,
Ashley Woodward (Dundee University, UK) ,
Ashley Woodward
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
Imprint: Continuum Publishing Corporation
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 3.60cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.794kg
ISBN: 9780826438454
ISBN 10: 0826438458
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 03 November 2011
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Language: English
Reviews
An exceptionally fruitful addition to theContinuum Companions, this volume on Existentialism gathers together animpressive range of scholars on a wide variety of research areas rangingthrough the philosophical, the psychoanalytic, the historical, the religious, and the literary to contemporary cognitive science and politics. Highlyrecommended for students and academics alike.--Christina Howells, Professor of French, University of Oxford, UK
An exceptionally fruitful addition to the Continuum Companions, this volume on Existentialism gathers together an impressive range of scholars on a wide variety of research areas ranging through the philosophical, the psychoanalytic, the historical, the religious, and the literary to contemporary cognitive science and politics. Highly recommended for students and academics alike.--Christina Howells, Professor of French, University of Oxford, UK An exceptionally fruitful addition to theContinuum Companions, this volume on Existentialism gathers together animpressive range of scholars on a wide variety of research areas rangingthrough the philosophical, the psychoanalytic, the historical, the religious, and the literary to contemporary cognitive science and politics. Highlyrecommended for students and academics alike.--Christina Howells, Professor of French, University of Oxford, UK
Author Information
Jack Reynolds is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at La Trobe University, Australia and author of Merleau-Ponty and Derrida: Intertwining Embodiment and Alterity (Ohio UP, 2004) and Understanding Existentialism (Acumen, 2006) and co-editor of Understanding Derrida (Continuum, 2004). Ashley Woodward teaches philosophy at the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, Australia. He is the author of Nihilism in Postmodernity (The Davies Group, 2010), a co-editor of Sensorium: Aesthetics, Art, Life (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007), and a regular editor for Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy.
