Routledge Library Editions: Existentialism
About the Book Series
This set collects together a vital selection of works on Existentialism, including the key Introduction to the New Existentialism by Colin Wilson. Some of the titles were early works written as this new philosophy spread into the English language, while others are more recent examinations.
Philosophies of Existence: An Introduction to the Basic Thought of Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Jaspers, Marcel, Sartre
1st Edition
By Jean Wahl
November 22, 2020
This book, first published in 1969, examines the ‘philosophies of existence’ or Existentialism and the field’s leading philosophers. These philosophers, the book argues, wished to distinguish themselves from other philosophies in their structure and approach – and it is that structure that this ...
A Study of the Political Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty
1st Edition
By Sonia Kruks
November 15, 2020
This book, first published in 1987, is an extended examination of Merleau-Ponty’s political philosophy. It describes and critically elucidates the main political themes to be found in his writings, and shows how his political ideas are related to his general phenomenological philosophy....
Beyond Existentialism
1st Edition
By J. Von Rintelen
November 15, 2020
This book, first published in 1961, is a careful analysis of this modern movement of thought, and especially of its leading German representative Martin Heidegger. This study presents a sound reading and criticism of the existentialist thinkers....
Encounter with Nothingness: An Essay on Existentialism
1st Edition
By Helmut Kuhn
November 15, 2020
This book, first published in 1951, discusses the fundamental concepts which have crystallized around the fatal ‘crisis’. It proceeds by critically examining the theories which, from Kierkegaard to Heidegger, Sartre and their associates, have placed Existentialism in the focus of philosophical ...
Existentialism from Within
1st Edition
By E.L. Allen
November 15, 2020
This book, first published in 1953, was one of the first written in English that attempted to provide a sympathetic analysis of the new movement of Existentialism. In the attempt to bring out what is of permanent value in what was at the time a study yet to gain academic recognition, it is a ...
Sartre and his Predecessors: The Self and the Other
1st Edition
By William Ralph Schroeder
November 15, 2020
This study, first published in 1984, presents an explanation and critical examination of the theories of Sartre, Heidegger, Husserl and Hegel on the fundamental relationships between persons. It also synthesizes the results into a new conception of one’s relation to other people. Sartre’s famous ...
Situation and Human Existence: Freedom, Subjectivity and Society
1st Edition
By Sonia Kruks
November 15, 2020
Social philosophy oscillates between two opposing ideas: that individuals fashion society, and that society fashions individuals. The concept of ‘situation’ was elaborated by the French existentialist thinkers to avoid this dilemma. Individuals are seen as actively situating themselves in society ...
The Concept of Freedom and the Development of Sartre's Early Political Thought
1st Edition
By Bernard Merkel
November 15, 2020
This book, first published in 1987, is a study of the development of Sartre’s political thought from the late 1920s to the liberation of France in 1944, concentrating particularly upon his concept of freedom. It is argued that the evolution of Sartre’s thinking can be regarded as constituting a ...
The Philosophy of Sartre
1st Edition
By Mary Warnock
November 15, 2020
This book, first published in 1965, is a critical exposition of the philosophical doctrines of Jean-Paul Sartre. His contribution to ethical and political theory, and to metaphysics and ontology, is reviewed against the background of German idealism and phenomenology, and his arguments are ...
Routledge Library Editions: Existentialism
1st Edition
By Various
May 08, 2019
This set collects together a vital selection of works on Existentialism, including the key Introduction to the New Existentialism by Colin Wilson. Some of the titles were early works written as this new philosophy spread into the English language, while others are more recent examinations....