Conrad's existentialism
Otto Bohlmann's fascinating study offers detailed and exhaustive evidence that the major philosophical aspects of Conrad's novels exhibit a powerful existential strain, foreshadowing many central concerns of twentieth-century modernism. Through both wide and close reading, Dr Bohlmann illuminates more thoroughly than any previous scholar the remarkable extent to which Conrad's fiction is replete with ideas, attitudes and even phrases reminiscent of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Jaspers, Marcel, Heide…
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- Full title :Conrad's existentialism / Otto Bohlmann.
Summary
Otto Bohlmann's fascinating study offers detailed and exhaustive evidence that the major philosophical aspects of Conrad's novels exhibit a powerful existential strain, foreshadowing many central concerns of twentieth-century modernism. Through both wide and close reading, Dr Bohlmann illuminates more thoroughly than any previous scholar the remarkable extent to which Conrad's fiction is replete with ideas, attitudes and even phrases reminiscent of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Jaspers, Marcel, Heidegger, Sartre and Camus.
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- Publication Date:1991.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Macmillan
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1991.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xvi, 234 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : : portraits
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780230374003, 023037400X
- DOI:10.1057/9780230374003
- oclc:ocn759105654
- LC Classification:PR6005.O4
- Dewey Decimal:823.912
Table of Contents
List of Plates -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Being in the World -- The Quest for Selfhood -- Condemned to be Free -- Being with Others -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
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