The Continuum Companion to Existentialism [Hardcover]

The Continuum Companion to Existentialism offers the
definitive guide to a key area of modern European philosophy. The book covers
the fundamental questions asked by existentialism, providing valuable guidance
for students and researchers to some of the many important and enduring
contributions of existentialist thinkers. Specially commissioned essays from an
international team of experts explore existentialism's relationship to
philosophical method; ontology; politics; psychoanalysis; ethics; religion;
literature; emotion; feminism and sexuality; cognitive science; authenticity
and the self; its significance in Latin American culture; and its contribution
to the development of Poststructuralism. In addition, five short chapters
summarise the status of canonical figures Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger,
Sartre and de Beauvoir, delineating the historical approach to their work,
while pointing to new directions such research is now taking.
Companion is an essential tool to help the new reader navigate
through the heart of Existentialism and modern European philosophy.

Featuring a
series of indispensable research tools (A to Z of terms, concepts and thinkers;
timeline of existentialism; list of resources and an annotated guide to further
reading), this

Jack Reynolds is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at La Trobe University, Australia and author of Merleau-Ponty and Derrida: Intertwining Embodiment and Alterity (Ohio UP, 2004) and Understanding Existentialism (Acumen, 2006) and co-editor of Understanding Derrida (Continuum, 2004).
Ashley Woodward teaches philosophy at the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, Australia. He is the author of Nihilism in Postmodernity (The Davies Group, 2010), a co-editor of Sensorium: Aesthetics, Art, Life (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007), and a regular editor for Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy.

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