Existentialism: Basic Writings / Edition 2

by Charles Guignon, Derk Pereboom

Overview

"An invaluable source for undergraduate courses in continental philosophy." —Giovanna Borradori, Vassar College

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780872205956
Publisher:	Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication date:	10/15/2001
Edition description:	REVISED
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Charles Guignon is Professor of Philosophy, University of South Florida. He is author of, among other works, Heidegger and the Problem of Knowledge (Hackett) and On Being Authentic (Routledge), and editor of The Grand Inquisitor: With Related Chapters from The Brothers Karamazov (Hackett), The Good Life (Hackett), Dostoevsky: Notes from the Underground (Hackett), and The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger (Cambridge University Press).

Derk Pereboom is Professor of Philosophy, Cornell University.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Legacy of Existentialism.

KIERKEGAARD: Introduction.

Background Reading: from Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.

Fear and Trembling:
Preface
A Panegyric Upon Abraham
Problemata:
Preliminary Expectoration
Problem I (Is There Such a Thing as a Teleological Suspension of the Ethical?)
Problem II (Is There Such a Thing as an Absolute Duty Toward God?).

The Sickness unto Death: That Despair is the Sickness unto Death.

Concluding Unscientific Postscript:
The Subjective Truth, Inwardness
Truth is Subjectivity.

NIETZSCHE: Introduction.

From The Birth of Tragedy: Section One.

The Gay Science.

Twilight of the Idols:
The Problem of Socrates
"Reason" in Philosophy
How the "True World" Finally Became a Fiction.

HEIDEGGER: Introduction.

From Being and Time:
Introduction.
The Question of Being
The Twofold Task in Working out the Question of Being.

Division One: Analysis of Dasein.
1. The Task of a Preparatory Analysis of Dasein.
2. Being-in-the-World as the Basic State of Dasein.
3. The Worldhood of the World.
4. Being-in-the-World as Being-With and Being-One's-Self. The "They".
5. Being-in as Such.
6. Care as the Being of Dasein.

Division Two: Dasein and Temporality.
1. Dasein's Possibility of Being-a-whole, and Being-toward-death.
2. Authenticity and Resoluteness.
3. Temporality as the Ontological Meaning of Care.

SARTRE: Introduction.

Background Reading: Husserl's "Phenomenology and Anthropology".

"The Humanism of Existentialism".

Being andNothingness:
1. The Origin of Negation: The Question.
2. Negations.
3. The Origin of Nothingness.
4. Bad Faith and Falsehood.
5. Patterns of Bad Faith.
6. The "Faith" of Bad Faith.
7. The Existence of Others.
8. Freedom and Responsibility.
9. Existential Psychoanalysis.
10. Ethical Implications.