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Introduction to modern existentialism /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Breisach, Ernst (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Grove Press, Inc., [1962]
Subjects:
Existentialism.
Existentialism
Existentialisme.
existentialism.
Existenzialismus
Table of Contents:
  • I. Existentialism and the American malaise
  • II. Existentialism prepared
  • A. The revolt of the "single one"
  • Soren Kierkegaard
  • The challenge
  • Hegel's grand system and Danish religious routine
  • The call for the existential Christian
  • B. The tragedy of a prophet
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
  • The challenge: The era of hope and confidence
  • The call for "higher man"
  • C. Critics of the "new era" in the sciences, arts, and literature
  • Sigmund Freud
  • Modern art
  • What of literature?
  • III. Existentialism arrived
  • A. The challenge
  • the age of disenchantment
  • B. The existentialist triad
  • Heidegger, Sartre, Jaspers
  • Martin Heidegger: Man
  • the servant of being
  • Jean-Paul Sartre: Man
  • master and useless passion
  • Karl Jaspers: Man
  • journey without arrival
  • C. The religious existentialists
  • Paul Tillich: Man
  • search for the "new being"
  • Gabriel Marcel: Man
  • venture in faith
  • Martin Buber: Man
  • participant in God's dialogue with the world
  • Nicolas Berdyaev: man
  • witness for primordial freedom
  • IV. Existentialism assessed
  • A. The existentialist image of man and his world
  • The "no" to the so-called scientific image of man
  • The elements of the human drama
  • A pessimistic image of man?
  • Man and his world
  • B. Existentialists on truth and God
  • Truth as individual concern
  • Truth as truth lived
  • Existentialism: the triumph of irrationalism?
  • The "living" God
  • C. Existentialist ethics and social philosophy
  • The problem of right and wrong
  • The problem of the "other" person
  • V. The American dream and Existentialism.