The Bloomsbury handbook of existentialism /
This fully revised and updated second edition provides a comprehensive reference guide to existentialism, featuring key chapters on key existentialist thinkers, as well as chapters applying existentialism to subject areas ranging across politics, literature, feminism, religion, the emotions, cogniti...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2024.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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| Summary: | This fully revised and updated second edition provides a comprehensive reference guide to existentialism, featuring key chapters on key existentialist thinkers, as well as chapters applying existentialism to subject areas ranging across politics, literature, feminism, religion, the emotions, cognitive science and poststructuralism. Contemporary developments in the field of existentialism that speak to issues of identity and exclusion are explored in four new chapters on race, gender, disability and technology, while the fifth new chapter new chapter outlines analytic philosophy's complicated relationship to existentialism. Presenting the field of existentialism beyond the European tradition, this edition also includes a new key thinker chapter on Frantz Fanon, alongside Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre and de Beauvoir, as well as new engagement with the work of scholars on race and existentialism, including Lewis R. Gordon, George Yancy and Richard Wright. The resources section at the end of the book includes an updated A to Z glossary, and timeline of key events, texts and thinkers in existentialism, as well as a list of relevant organizations, and an annotated guide to further reading, making this edition an invaluable text for scholars and students alike. |
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| Item Description: | Previous edition: 2014. |
| Physical Description: | x, 420 pages ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1350227447 9781350227446 |