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Existentialism by Richard Gravil; Mark Addis is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Existentialism about?

'An exploration of the 20th Century Philosophy which claimed that ‘existence preceded essence', or, in effect, that men and women define their own being through their acts and choices. After an Introduction examining the historical moment of Existentialism, as a product of wartime discipline and consciousness, this book sets out the thinking of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers on the broad questions of What is Man?'; ‘What Can I Know?'and ‘What must I do?'It introduces models of Abandonment, The Absurd and Ambiguity; Consciousness and Freedom; Being-in-itself and Being-for-itself, Bad Faith, Facticity and Possibility, Dasein, or there-being, Temporality, attitudes towards Death; The Will-to-Power, The Superman, and the so-called Kingdom of Ends. The book glances throughout at literary contributions to Existentialism, and ends with brief biographies of the major Existentialists and an extensive glossary of terms.'

Who reads Existentialism?

Author

Richard Gravil; Mark Addis

Publisher

Humanities-Ebooks, LLP

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781847600110

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Philosophy, Humanities

Rating

3.31 / 5 (33 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13