Conrad's Existentialism [Hardcover]

Otto Bohlmann's fascinating study offers detailed and exhaustive evidence that the major philosophical aspects of Conrad's novels exhibit a powerful existential strain, foreshadowing many central concerns of twentieth-century modernism. Through both wide and close reading, Dr Bohlmann illuminates more thoroughly than any previous scholar the remarkable extent to which Conrad's fiction is replete with ideas, attitudes and even phrases reminiscent of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Jaspers, Marcel, Heidegger, Sartre and Camus.List of Plates - Preface - List of Abbreviations - Being in the World - The Quest for Selfhood - Condemned to be Free - Being with Others - Epilogue - Notes - Select Bibliography - IndexOTTO BOHLMANN