The Existentialist's Guide to Death, the Universe and Nothingness

The Existentialist's Guide to Death, the Universe and Nothingness

by Gary Cox
The Existentialist's Guide to Death, the Universe and Nothingness

The Existentialist's Guide to Death, the Universe and Nothingness

by Gary Cox

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Overview

The Existentialist's Guide to Death, the Universe and Nothingness is an entertaining philosophical guide to life, love, hate, freedom, sex, anxiety, God and death; a guide to everything and nothing. Gary Cox, bestselling author of How to Be an Existentialist and How to Be a Philosopher, takes us on an exciting jourbaney through the central themes of existentialism, a philosophy of the human condition. The Existentialist's Guide fascinates, informs, provokes and inspires as it explores existentialism's uncompromising view of human reality. It leaves the reader with no illusions about how hard it is to live honestly and achieve authenticity. It has, however, a redeeming humour that sets the wisdom of the great existentialist philosophers alongside the wit of great musicians and comedians. A realistic self-help book for anyone interested in personal empowerment, The Existentialist's Guide offers a wealth of profound philosophical insight into life, the universe and everything.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781350029729
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 10/19/2017
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 192
Sales rank: 1,131,244
Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Gary Cox has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Birmingham, UK, where he is also an Honorary Research Fellow. He is author of The Sartre Dictionary (2000), Sartre and Fiction (2009), Sartre: A Guide for the Perplexed (2006), How to Be an Existentialist (2011), How to Be a Philosopher (2014), The God Confusion (2015), Deep Thought, (2015) and Existentialism and Excess: The Life and Times of Jean-Paul Sartre (2016) all published by Bloomsbury.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Existentialists and Existentialism
2. The Universe
3. Nothingness
4. Consciousness and Lack
5. Time
6. Freedom and Choice
7. Anxiety and Vertigo
8. Bad Faith
9. Responsibility
10. Authenticity
11. Children and Childhood
12. Other People
13. The Body
14. Love and Hate
15. Sexual Desire
16. Marriage
17. Emotions
18. Contingency and Absurdity
19. God
20. Death
Bibliography
Other Media References
Further Reading
Index

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