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Human existence: contradiction and hope : existential reflections past and present /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Strolz, Walter, 1927-
Other Authors: Reinecke, Elizabeth (Translator), Bailey, Paul C. (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Translation of: Widerspruch und Hoffnung des Daseins.
Published: Notre Dame, Ind. University of Notre Dame Press [1967]
Subjects:
Philosophy.
Philosophy
Philosophie.
philosophy.
Table of Contents:
  • The boundaries of knowledge in natural science: Pascal
  • The experience of Biblical truth: Johann Georg Hamann
  • Indestructible hope: Ernst Bloch
  • Modern atheism: Descartes to Kafka
  • Human fear and the Christian message
  • Human existence: mystery
  • Myth and demythologizing: Bultmann
  • The humor of mortal man: the Book of Ecclesiastes
  • The revolt of the pious: the Book of Job
  • The truth of music
  • Childhood: the basic pattern of existence.