The Arrow that flies by day: existential images ot the human condition from Socrates to Hannah Arendt

Seeking the good life: Socrates' erotic revolution -- At home in the universe: the Stoics as Existentialists -- Senses of the self: Augustine and the ascent of the soul -- Overcoming alienation: Rousseau's search for authenticity -- Becoming who we are: Kierkegaard against his age (and our...

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Auteur principal: Murchland, Bernard (Auteur)
Type de support: Imprimé Livre
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Lanham, Md. [u.a.] Univ. Press of America 2008
Dans:Année: 2008
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Philosophie existentialiste
Sujets non-standardisés:B Existentialism History
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Résumé:Seeking the good life: Socrates' erotic revolution -- At home in the universe: the Stoics as Existentialists -- Senses of the self: Augustine and the ascent of the soul -- Overcoming alienation: Rousseau's search for authenticity -- Becoming who we are: Kierkegaard against his age (and ours) -- Single in the crowd: Thoreau's existential experiment at Walden Pond -- No short cut to Paradise: the lonely passion of William James -- Beyond Nihilism: Nietzsche and the ethics of utopia -- Between solitude and solidarity: the two worlds of Albert Camus -- The desire to be God: Sartre and the winding roads of freedom -- Dramatist of a broken world: the soft theism of Gabriel Marcel -- Thinking without banisters: Hannah Arendt and the face of radical evil
ISBN:0761840311