Présentation des grands thèmes de l'existentialisme et des auteurs qui l'incarnent, entre autres Sartre, Camus, Beauvoir, mais aussi Merleau-Ponty, Jaspers ou encore Kierkegaard.
Sitting at his desk, Bernardo Soares imagined himself free forever of Rua dos Douradores, of his boss Vasques, of Moreira the book-keeper, of all the other employees, the errand boy, the post boy, even the cat. But if he left them all tomorrow and discarded the suit of clothes h…
"Sitting at his desk, Bernardo Soares imagined himself free forever of Rua dos Douradores, of his boss Vasques, of Moreira the book-keeper, of all the other employees, the errand boy, the post boy, even the cat. But if he left them all tomorrow and discarded the suit of clothes …
Gary Cox offers a witty and concise introduction to existentialism which is, at the same time, a genuine self-help book offering clear advice on how to live according to the principles of existentialism.
How to Be an Existentialist is a concise, witty and entertaining book about the philosophy of existentialism. It is also a genuine self-help book offering clear advice on how to live according to the principles of existentialism formulated by Nietzsche, Sartre, Camus and the oth…
Feeling overwhelmed by the emptiness in his life, a documentary movie maker abandons his wife and career for a solitary existence in a Parisian suburb, where he develops an obsessive longing for someone he met briefly twenty years earlier.
"Heidegger's later thought is a thinking of things, so argues Andrew J. Mitchell in The Fourfold. Heidegger understands these things in terms of what he names "the fourfold"--A convergence of relationships bringing together the earth, the sky, divinities, and mortals--and Mitche…
Written in celebration of Frantz Fanon's seventieth birthday, Lewis Gordon's Fanon and the Crisis of European Man engages with the work of Fanon in novel and interesting ways. As the first to analzye the work of Fanon as an existential-phenomenological of human sciences and libe…