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Rowman & Littlefield From Rationalism to Existentialism The Existentialists and Their Nineteenth-Century Backgrounds 2001 Edition by Robert C. Solomon
In this enduring text, renowned philosopher Robert C. Solomon provides students with a detailed introduction to modern existentialism. He reveals how this philosophy not only connects with, but derives from, the thought of traditional philosophers through the works of Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty. Thus, existentialism emerges from the school of rational thought as a logical evolution of respected philosophy. Table of contents : - Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 The Nineteenth-Century Backgrounds: Kant, Hegel, and Existentialism Chapter 3 Immanuel Kant Chapter 4 G.W.F. Hegel Chapter 5 Soren Kierkegaard Chapter 6 Friedrich Nietzsche Part 7 The Twentieth Century: Phenomenology and Existentialism Chapter 8 Edmund Husserl and Phenomenology Chapter 9 Martin Heidegger Chapter 10 Jean-Paul Sartre and French Existentialism Chapter 11 Bibliography Chapter 12 Footnotes Chapter 13 Index